This marker identifies the original site of the Presentation Academy located on Hwy. 1 at Airport Rd. in Cocoville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, between Marksville and Mansura. It was the first Catholic school in Avoyelles Parish, founded in 1855 by Daughters of the Cross of Treguier, France, and Mother Mary Hyacinth Le Conniat on request of Bishop Martin. The Battle of Mansura, May 16, 1864, began on convent grounds.
Doan Elementary School (Doan Classroom Apartments)
1350 E. 105th St.
Cleveland, OH
The Doan School is located at 1350 East 105th St. in Cleveland, Ohio. Built in 1904, Doan School is an unusually fine example of turn-of-the-century 2nd Renaissance Revival public school architecture. It also displays, through its two-stage construction, the transition taking place at the time in the natural lighting of school classrooms. The building is distinguished from other schools of the same period in Cleveland and elsewhere by its highly fashionable styling and its extensive amount of ornamentation. The building is a significant work by the prolific architect Frank S. Barnum, who during this turn-of-the-century period served as the principal architect of many Cleveland Board of Education school buildings. Now known and used as the Doan Classroom Apartments, the structure was listed with the National Register of Historic Places on August 23, 1984.
Established in 1919, just over a century ago, a one-room schoolhouse was built in Monticello, Kentucky. Jennings Hollow School once taught its students in the community up to 7th grade, and operated until the 1960s, around 1964. The schoolhouse has been restored recently, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. In 1990 the school house was featured in a movie called Borderline. Several members of the community were offered small roles in the film to help with authenticity. Today, this newly restored historical one room schoolhouse is loaded with quaint charm. A large bank of windows light up the antiqued wood floors and walls making it impossible not to wonder back in time as one takes in the one room Interior. With a large front porch and front yard, there is everything needed for a Norman Rockwell style family gathering place or convert to a unique one room home. It is complete with a new bathroom and heating and air. Located just four miles from Hwy. 90, this property has easy accessibility but tucked securely down a quiet lane, you’ll feel a million miles from everyone. This would be such a cool piece of history to own. Someone could turn the old schoolhouse into a quaint home with an open living area for sitting on the front porch sipping on some sweet tea, or hosting a gathering with some friends in the main hall. Or this building would make a beautiful small event space.
This historic one room Kansas schoolhouse is located at 28001 Hinerville Road, near Alma, Kansas, only 1/8 mile off I-70 on Highway 99. The first school was organized at Hinerville in 1869, and it 1898 when this school was constructed at the corner of Highway 99 and Hinerville Rd. The original owner was Leopolt Funk to whom it was deeded on 10/28/1879. A Warranty Deed was issued to School Board of District 15 on August 17, 1898. The building is a one-room schoolhouse built of native stone with gable roof and bell tower with pyramidal roof. There is a rear addition with hip roof. Roofs are composite shingles. It has original 2/2 Double Hung wood windows with hail screen storms. The one room has original light fixtures and wood floors. The front vestibule is flanked by two original cloak rooms. Slate chalkboards and the original school bell are present on the property.
The property also boasts a 32-foot windmill. The original 1903 Honduran mahogany Gabler piano and an Ajax Globe No. 21 potbelly stove are also on site. The tin ceiling was removed in 1950s. Some of the original window sashes are on site. There is an original beadboard ceiling; however, the metal ceiling tins have been removed. A small additional room may have been added at a later date. The building served as a school for grades 1-8 until 1952. It looks as if the building was used as a retail business most recently, having been Hinerville Gift and Garden, then Dragonfly Landscape Design until recently (ca. 2004). The windows were replaced in 2014. It is presently vacant and not in use, but future use is planned as a wedding venue after a renovation. The date “District 15 Hinerville 1898” is inscribed above the front entrance
Central School, also known as Hickory Grove School, is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at the junction of Bellevue-Canton and Dubuque-Canton Rds. northeast of Canton, Iowa. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 12 are school buildings. This school building was built in 1868, possibly by G.W. Kelsall or Issac Wilmer McCullogh, who were local stonemasons. The stone blocks that were used in the construction of this rectangular structure vary somewhat in shape and size, and they were laid in courses. What is unusual about the stone used here is that they are long and narrow, compared to the other buildings. The stones used at the corners are somewhat larger. The window sills and lintels are dressed stone. The stone used for this building was quarried about a mile north of here. A name and date stone are located on the east gable, above the door. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Cross School is a historic one-room school building located on the southeastern corner of the intersection of Voiles and Townsend Roads southeast of Martinsville in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a simple one-story, rectangular, brick building with a gable roof. It features segmental arched openings. Operating as a one room rural school until 1941, it then housed a Sunday school for 25 years. Restored in 1976 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Today is serves as an example for area elementary schools for field trips, providing students with an experience of a day in a one room school. Romantic notions of the one room school became known to a whole new generation in television programs such as The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie.
One of the earlier one room schools houses in Fulton County, the East Waterford School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at the junction of North Dickson Mounds Road and East Prairie Road in Waterford Township, Fulton County, Illinois. The red-brick schoolhouse is the second building to occupy this site. The first East Waterford School was a wooden frame structure constructed in 1856. The present school was built in 1907 to replace the 1856 building which had burned down earlier in the year. A pre-dawn fire in the spring of 1907 destroyed the original building along with its equipment and records. Classes were held in the Waterford Town Hall for the remainder of the term.
Construction on the red brick schoolhouse began immediately after the fire in 1907, and the structure was finished in time for the fall term. Originally the school had stationary desks in rows, but eventually the desks were fastened to moveable strips. The school had the following equipment, which was fairly standard for country schools: a set of wall maps, a world globe, a set of encyclopedias, and a set of dictionaries. A corner of the room served as a library. The school was heated by a coal- and wood-burning stove in the basement.
While it was still a traditional one-room rural school building, the new school added several modern features which made it relatively progressive for its time and setting. While it was still a frame building like its predecessor, the new school had a brick veneer, making it both more durable and visually appealing. The interior featured a heating plant in the basement with an indoor staircase and a cloakroom which was separate from the classroom, both of which were newer developments for small schools at the time. In addition to fire, tornadoes were always a threat. The closest call came in 1933 when a tornado took the roof off the new building that had been erected over the burial excavation exhibit at Dickson Mounds only one hundred yards away. After this near miss, the school board had a concrete shelter built part way into the slope of the hill just outside the building. A telephone was also installed in the school. Kerosene lamps were used during night programs until the building was electrified in 1939 by the Rural Electrification Administration.
The average daily attendance at East Waterford School ranged from 20 to 30 pupils. All eight grades were taught in the school’s single classroom. East Waterford School served Waterford residents until 1957, when rural school consolidation forced it to close. From 1959 to 1986, the schoolhouse was used as a laboratory and field camp by archaeologists working at Dickson Mounds Museum. In 1988, the building was restored to its original appearance, and now serves as a special events location and meeting place for museum activities. The schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 2009.
Collister School in the Collister neighborhood of Boise, Idaho, was designed by Tourtellotte and Hummel, was constructed in 1912, and owes its existence to Dr. George Collister. A 1-room Collister School in the suburban town of Collister, Idaho, had existed prior to 1912. But by 1911, conditions at the school were overcrowded and unsanitary. The school was part of Ada County School District #46, and voters approved a bond measure for construction of a new school in 1912. Dr. Collister was born in Willoughby, Ohio, in 1856, the youngest in a family of eight. He received his medical degree from Herron Medical College in 1880. In the summer of 1881, Dr. Collister moved west to the frontier town of Boise to begin a long medical career. Dr. George Collister (October 16, 1856—October 18, 1935) began his medical practice in Boise in 1881, and he owned farmland at the site of Collister Station, a stop on the Boise Interurban Railway. In 1912 George and Mary Collister donated land for the construction of Collister School.
The 2-story, 4-room, stucco over brick building features large window bays and a flat parapet roofline with minimal ornamentation. In 1922 the school was annexed into the Boise Independent School District. The building was expanded in 1948 with a 2-story addition to the left of the original structure. Another expansion in 1953 added a 1-story row of classrooms to the right. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. As part of the approved 2017 Boise School District Bond, the Collister Elementary School Remodel has started. The original 1912 building has far exceeded its capacity. The project is expected to be completed in August 2024. Students are being relocated to an alternate location during the construction phase, attending the Fort Boise swing school during the construction year. The remodel design is by LKV Architects and being managed by Beniton Construction. The remodel has an estimated cost of over $7 million.
The Kilauea School sits on a 6.5-acre parcel on the outer fringes of the former Kilauea Plantation Community. The school consists of three buildings: a U-shaped administration-classrooms building, a cafeteria, and a former teacher’s cottage. The buildings are sited on the back portion of their lot with an extensive lawn in front, allowing for a sweeping view of the entire campus. The Kilauea School is significant as a typical rural schoolhouse on the island of Kauai and for its associations with the development of public education in the town of Kilauea.
The school was originally founded in 1882 by the Kingdom of Hawaii as an “English Standard” school. The Kilauea students went to class in the old Koolau Hui’ia church several miles east of town. In 1894 the Republic of Hawaii Board of Education built a two-room schoolhouse and teachers cottage on land donated by the plantation in Kalihiwai–a few miles west of the school’s present location. In 1922, to serve the growing sugar plantation community, the County of Kauai built a new school at its current site on Kolo Rd. at the edge of town.
Today, Kilauea School, also known as Kilauea Elementary School, in Kilauea, Hawaii, on Kauai, is a public elementary school operated by the Hawaii Department of Education. It occupies the historic school building that was founded in 1882 and known as an “English School.” The current school complex, whose main building was built in 1922, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983; the listing included three contributing buildings on 6.5 acres.
The National Register of Historic Places listed the main building and two others on the Kilauea campus as Historically Significant. The three buildings are the administration-classrooms building, cafeteria, and teacher’s cottage. A big lawn in front of the three buildings is crossed by a circular driveway. The main building was designed by County Department of Public Works’ architect John Waiamau, and the others were designed by Tai King Leong. The complex was deemed significant for NRHP listing “as a typical rural schoolhouse on the island of Kauai and for its associations with the development of public education in the town of Kilauea.”
The Tallapoosa School was built as a one-room schoolhouse in 1880 on over 3 acres of land just 2 miles from the University of West Georgia campus and the town of Carrollton. Completely renovated in 2000 and today known as the Tallapoosa Wellness Collective, it now houses a yoga studio and office along with a guest bedroom with lots of light from three large windows that overlook a dense forest in the back of the property. The room is completely furnished with a microwave and a small refrigerator and access to a private bathroom. Set back from the road, the building sits amongst cedar trees and includes a circular drive lined with oak trees and a brick firepit.
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