Skeletal remains of the town still provide provocative textures, colors, and angles. The 1936 WPA Bloom High School gymnasium at 200 East is the stand-out remnant with its native red sandstone walls. The school closed in the early 1960s and only its entrance remains. An unidentified building, similar in construction to the gymnasium, still stands in good condition to the west along Main. A Spanish style service station with three service bays faces U.S. 54 as does the original Rock Island depot. Both stopped expecting traffic long ago. Bloom was once one of the largest wheat shipping stations on the Rock Island line west of Hutchinson, and it still serves as a grain storage facility today.