The Old Rock School (also known as the Guntersville City School) is a historic building in Guntersville, Alabama. The one-story building was constructed in 1926 in a flat-figure 8 shape, with two courtyards in the middle. It was built in the American Craftsman style, with rock facing and exposed rafters tails. The school was born of Progressive Era philosophy of providing proper facilities for education, including modern plumbing, proper lighting and ventilation, and ample open space. An auditorium allowed for classes in drama and music, as well as public concerts and performances. After the school was replaced in the 1970s, several other groups utilized the building. Its current tenant is The Whole Backstage, a non-profit youth drama organization. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. A new, 337-seat auditorium was constructed in 2005.
Colegio de San Ildefonso currently is a museum and cultural center in Mexico City, considered to be the birthplace of the Mexican muralism movement. San Ildefonso began as a prestigious Jesuit boarding school. The Jesuits arrived in Mexico in 1572. With evangelization of the native population mostly complete in central Mexico, this order soon turned to establishing schools, especially schools for Criollo youth. They founded numerous colleges both in Mexico City and the outlying provinces, but the most important of these was San Ildefonso,
The college was founded 1588. In 1618, it merged with the old San Pedro y San Pablo College, which was nearly in ruins, and gained a royal seal from Philip III of Spain. The complex is composed of six sections, five of which are colonial baroque. They are the Colegio Grande, Colegio Chico, the chapel, El Generalito, and the courtyard of los Pasantes, all completed in 1749. One modern neo-baroque section, the Amphitheater Bolívar, was completed in 1911.
After the Reform War of 1858-1860, the college gained educational prestige again as National Preparatory School. This school and the building closed completely in 1978, and then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1992. The museum has permanent and temporary art and archeological exhibitions in addition to the many murals painted on its walls by José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, Diego Rivera, and others. The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City.
The Green Mountain School, a former one-room rural schoolhouse now part of a history museum in Newcastle, Wyoming, was built in the 1890’s and served as a school until 1929. The building is now part of the Anna Miller Museum in Newcastle. The school has been restored and furnished like it would have in the late 1890’s or early 1900’s. Green Mountain one room school house moved to the Anna Miller Musuem grounds along with the school bell
The Anna Miller Museum, is located at 401 Delaware Ave. in Newcastle, WY. The city’s status as a home base for a National Guard troop, first organized in 1899, led to the construction of an armory building. The troop became a cavalry troop in 1914. The sandstone stable, built in the mid 1930s, has been used since 1966 by the Weston County Historical Society to house Anna Miller Museum. The building was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Visitors won’t want to miss the varied collection of artifacts and memorabilia, including five period rooms refurbished with antiques from the 1930s, the one-room Green Mountain Schoolhouse, model pioneer cabins, including the Jenney Stockade Cabin, the oldest remaining building from the Black Hills gold rush, Cambria artifacts, an exhibit of fossils, and a county store. Admission is free, and the museum is open year-round Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with additional hours on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon from June through August.
Frey School (Town of Roxbury District No. 2 School)
8847 County Trunk Hwy. Y
Roxbury, Wisconsin
The Frey School building is an early one-room school built between 1870 and 1881 in Roxbury, Wisconsin. An earlier one-room frame school building was built of wood on this site by the Town of Roxbury between 1855 and 1861, located on the outskirts of the unincorporated hamlet of Roxbury in northwest Dane County. The building was constructed on a half-acre of land that was donated by Bavarian immigrants Agidius and Anna Frey. The Freys were natives of Bavaria who had come to this country just a few years before and had established a farm that surrounded the land that they donated to the Town. For many years the Freys provided water for drinking and wood for heating the school while the school was in operation. By 1870 the school population had outgrown that first building so that the original school was in need of replacement, as were several of the other five one-room schools in the Town of Roxbury, so the district replaced the old wooden school with this highly intact one-room sandstone building as the Town of Roxbury District No. 2 School.
As a result, four of the Town’s original six schools were replaced with ones built of locally quarried sandstone over the course of the next ten years. The Frey School has walls that are sandstone, somewhat coursed. Like most one-room schoolhouses, the exterior of the Frey School is simple in design and its most outstanding feature, besides its stone walls, is its pointed arch entrance door, the opening of which has paneled sides. The front door with the pointed top is stylish compared to the rest of the building. Inside is a narrow vestibule where coats were hung, and then this room opens into the one classroom proper; both spaces share a plastered cove ceiling and plastered interior walls. Like other schools of the day, the Frey School did not have indoor plumbing and it was heated by a wood stove.
The building had to wait until well into the twentieth century before it was electrified. Three other one-room schools were built of sandstone in the township. Of the four, the Frey School is the most intact and is now the most intact of the Town of Roxbury schools that survive. The school was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 2010 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.
Weston Colored School, also known as Frontier School and the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library and Museum, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1882, and is a single-story rubbed red brick building on a fieldstone foundation. The first and only public school for African Americans in Weston, it originally measured 22 feet by 28 feet, then enlarged in 1928 by 12 feet, 6 inches. The school included eight grades and taught children ranging in age from six to sixteen. It was used as an educational facility for the community’s African-American youth until desegregation in 1954.
Subsequently used for storage, then an agricultural classroom for the Lewis County High School, and as a shop for mentally disabled students, the building afterwards was used by the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library and Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and is located in the Weston Downtown Residential Historic District, listed in 2005. Since 2006, this historic building has been home to the Mountaineer Military Museum. The museum offers exhibits drawn from the collection of museum founder Ron McVaney. The museum is supported by the Lewis County Board of Education that offered this space to McVaney for the purpose of maintaining a museum. The building includes a marker and information about the school.
Hawthorne Elementary School, 3575 W. 130th St., in Cleveland, Ohio, was built in 1917, with additions in 1920 and 1927. It was closed in 2013. While classes aren’t going on at Hawthorne School in the Jefferson neighborhood, that is where Sustainable Community Associates (SCA) is going to school. The Cleveland-based real estate development firm has repurposed many an old Cleveland building into apartments, some with shops or restaurants. But this is SCA’s first lesson in converting a school to apartments. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 2022. The $14.9 million historic renovation of the former Nathaniel Hawthorne School Elementary School, will turn it into 37 reasonably priced market-rate one- to four-bedroom apartments. The developers are preserving the green space around the school, and it will be used by both apartment residents and community members.
The former Harvard School (now apartments) is located at 6900 Harvard Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Built in 1903, it was listed with the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2002. The Harvard School is in a working-class neighborhood of Cleveland known today as Slavic Village. Located nearly five miles southeast of downtown Cleveland’s Public Square, the neighborhood around the school became home to many immigrants of Slavic background who arrived in Cleveland from eastern and southern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Today the Harvard School is surrounded by modest working-class houses dating primarily from the early 20th century. Harvard Avenue, which is a busy east-west corridor, passes the north side of the school, and East 71st Street, an active north-south commercial street, passes to the east. The building is surrounded by flat lawn and playground areas; an industrial building is located close to the school’s east end on Polonia Avenue. The area has a strong, dense urban working-class character, and the Harvard School was built to educate the many children living here in the early 20th century.
The development of modern school design in Cleveland began when Frank S. Barnum became architect and superintendent of buildings for the Cleveland Public Schools in 1895, a post he would hold until 1915. The Harvard School was the work of Barnum, with a later addition by Charles W. Hopkinson. The school is located at 6900 Harvard Avenue in a working-class neighborhood close to the east edge of the heavily industrialized Cuyahoga River Valley. The Harvard School was built in three sections between 1903 and 1927, reflecting the rapid growth of its surrounding neighborhood in the period between the turn of the 20th century and the start of the Great Depression.
Though it has some elements of the Jacobethan Revival style, such as an arched entrance opening with an ornamental panel surmounting it, as well as clustered windows with transoms, the building has a very spare and simple design. The rectangular 1908 addition, which was placed south of the original school, is of a more ornamental design. The 1927 addition projects from the east wall of the 1908 addition. This portion of the building is very simple in design, though it has a few elements of the Jacobethan Revival style that link it to the earlier structures, such as door and window surrounds and a stone panel near the southeast corner with the incised legend “Harvard School.” The walls of the 1927 addition and its gymnasium extension are topped by simple stone copings similar to those on the 1903 and 1908 structures. A single-story infill in the ell formed by the 1908 and 1927 additions is of indeterminate date but has elements similar to those in the 1927 addition.
The Vincent School, also known as Vincent Schoolhouse, was an early twentieth century schoolhouse in the rural community of Vincent, near Carnation, Washington, USA. Construction of the school began in 1905. The Vincent School is a one-story wood-frame structure. Originally 864 square feet, a 576 square feet annex was added in 1919, which provided additional instructional space and room for the teacher to live. The original building is capped with a high-pitched front gable roof and a small bell tower. The bell tower was removed between 1932 and 1936, and then restored with the original bell in 1988. Initially, the schoolhouse was heated by wood-burning stove; later, an interior fireplace replaced it. In the 1930s, a Works Progress Administration project built a small outbuilding to provide lavatories for the children.
The schoolhouse was built by the community in 1905, a one-room schoolhouse that served all grade levels. Teachers were generally hired for 2–3 months at a time during seasons when children could be released from farm responsibilities. Between 1914 and 1919, an average of 22 pupils attended the school. The school closed in 1942, and has been used by the Vincent Community Club since. The Vincent School was the primary public building in Carnation for approximately 98 years. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The building is currently used as a community center.
The Gate School is the historic former school in Gate, Washington. Just north of Rochester, WA, where Moon Road meets Hunter Road, are two sets of railroad tracks with a rusted sign that reads “GATE.” The sign is where the former train depot to Gate City once stood. The tracks and a small yellow schoolhouse just beyond are all that are left of the original bustling town of Gate City. At its peak in the 1890s and early 1900s, Gate City, whose name was later shortened to Gate, was a booming lumber and railroad junction town, billed as the “Gateway to the Coast.” Loggers lived in camps six days a week and came back to town on Saturday nights to their families or to unwind if they were single. The railroad also offered employment at the depot, on the trains, and along the track doing maintenance on section crews. Gate offered two train depots, two general stores, several mills, blacksmiths, lunch counters, saloons, a large hotel, a dance hall, and a church.
The one room schoolhouse was built in 1910. The frame building features a gable roof, eaves with decorative brackets, exposed rafter tails, a brick chimney, and a square bell tower. By the 1920s, however, most of the timber had been cut and the mills closed down, and cars supplanted the train. With little employment people began to move away. Fires destroyed some of the early structures, and others were later torn down, the lumber sometimes salvaged to build a newer house or barn down the road. After the Gate School District consolidated with Rochester’s school district in 1941, the school building became a community center and has been so used ever since.
Today, houses are scattered about. Driving through the area you would not necessarily think of it as a community. A community it is, though, and the schoolhouse is at the center of it. Several members of the Gate Community Club, a non-profit, have cared for the school and held as its mission to “preserve the community” for over a century. The schoolhouse was known locally as the Gate Little. Gate Big School was across the tracks to the north where higher grades attended class. Classes were held at the Little School for grades one through four. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1990, and is also on the Washington State Historic Register.
The care that neighbors have given the school building and grounds over the years is evident. Inside the school the original slate chalkboard and wainscoting still line the walls. The flooring is original, too, made of fir planks logged from the nearby Bordeaux Camp. Antique desks are arranged like they would have been 100 years ago at the Gate City Schoolhouse. Historic photos of Gate and the surrounding area, original plat maps, and a quilt made by the Homemakers Club, a subsidiary of the Community Club, are on display.
The little old ladies of the Homemakers Club met at the school and made quilts to raffle off to pay for the taxes, utilities and any supplies needed for maintenance. But by 2006 the school was in need of more work than simply selling a quilt could cover. The Community Club was instrumental in applying for Thurston County Heritage grants. The three grants they have attained so far have paid for professional exterior painting, restoration of the windows, ceiling and light fixtures, an ADA ramp to the entrance, a new back porch, and more. The Boy Scouts have focused their efforts outside. They built the fence, brick BBQ, gazebo, and picnic area and help maintain the grounds. 4-H groups continue to meet there as well as many others. The Gate Community Club meets once a month for a potluck. The group also holds a plant sale in the spring, a blueberry pancake breakfast in the summer and a history night in the fall when the descendants of Gate’s original settlers as well as current residents share stories and memories.
The simple gabled Glebe Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located near Summerdean in Augusta County, Virginia, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1830, by the Thompson family, most likely as a private one-room, brick schoolhouse with a gable roof and gable-end chimney. Glebe Schoolhouse is in a form that was standard for rural schoolhouses of the period. It departs from the norm, however, by employing brick rather than wood construction. This rare mid-19th-century one-room schoolhouse is on the former glebe of the colonial Augusta Parish. It is the only extant one-room school of brick construction and the oldest documented schoolhouse in Augusta County, and one of the few surviving privately built schoolhouses in Virginia. It was identified as “Glebe Schoolhouse no. 19” on the 1884 Hotchkiss map of that section of Augusta County, indicating that it was a public school by then.
Nestled into the east side of a ridge between Middle River and Back Creek, the Glebe school retains its secluded rural setting in western Augusta County. The Glebe Schoolhouse displays the simple, gable-end form typical for 19th century schoolhouses. A single door provides entry into the east gable end, while three windows with 916 sash line each side wall. The choice of brick construction reflects both its pre-Civil War date and the strong masonry tradition which developed in the 19th century in the Summerdean area of the Shenandoah Valley and influenced the building of stores, churches, and dwellings. The walls are laid in an irregular pattern of four- to five-course American bond with Flemish variant. With its mid-19th century date and brick construction, the school includes a gable-end chimney for heating, whereas central stove flues generally served the later frame schools built in the late 19th century.
The school closed when the county schools were consolidated in the early-20th century. After the schoolhouse closed, the building was remodeled and subsequently converted into a private dwelling, and the present frame ell was added. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Now empty, Glebe Schoolhouse stands in its remarkably beautiful setting in Augusta County as a picturesque example of a vanishing aspect of rural America.
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