Origins

I grew up in a small Ohio town, and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike). As the years went by, I watched this wonderful, familiar friend fall apart. After I married, the school really began to deteriorate. Every time we visited the area I would want to take a photo of the school, but never did. Finally, when we went specifically for the task, the school was gone. It was a huge loss for me and, since that time, whenever we pass a one-room school, it is a joy to stop to take a picture or two. Thus, our collection here and on our Iowa One Room Schools blog. :oD Jill

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Unknown School

N of Mishicot, WI. On east side of County Route B. Photographed 8/4/21. Notice a window was rudely knocked out on the south side, just in front of the three original windows.


North Of Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin

At the NW corner of State Highway 57 and German Rd. Possible 2- or 4-room. Converted to a home. Photographed 8/3/21. First photo is looking at the north and east side; school faces east.


"Pioneer School"

Located at 3060 Anderson Lane, Ephraim, WI. Built in 1880. In 1900, due to increase in student load from 60 to 80, the school was lengthened. It closed in 1948. Photographed 8/3/31.


In the photo of the ceiling, look on the right side and you can see a line where the original building ended. In the last photo the air conditioning unit sits right about where the original structure ended.


Saturday, August 7, 2021

Lincoln School

This photo was shot through the windshield "on the fly" by Jill, so it isn't sharp.  I don't have an exact location, but it is a little bit south of Sturgeon Bay on the west side of Highway 57 (we were northbound). Photographed 8/2/21.


Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Elvaston Consolidated School

The huge section on the back of the school was obviously a later addition.  This school is on the east side of Elvaston, IL, south side of US136.

Photographed 7/31/20

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Wards Grove Township, Jo Davies County.

Located about 3 miles east of Stockton, IL, on US20, NE corner of S. Willow Rd/US20 junction.  Built 1857, used for storage.

Photographed 7/19/19

Waddams Township, Stephenson County

This school is located in Illinois on Cedarville Rd (county route 5), 4.5 miles east of Galena Rd, just east of N. Flansburg Rd on the north side of the road. It has been converted to a home.
Photographed 7/19/19