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
Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Harmony School, District 53

Here's a school we learned about from an employee at the Lied Lodge in Nebraska City.
The school was used from 1857 to 1997, but this is the second building, which was constructed in 1879.  From SR2 and U.S.75, proceed south on U.S. 75 for 7 miles to Q Rd (Q is also 3.6 miles south of the airport entrance).  Turn west on Q and proceed 3/4 mile.  School is on the north side.  Used as a residence.
Photographed on 8/2/14
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Baker School, District 18

One of the tour guides for the Kregel Windmill Museum in Nebraska City told us about this school, so we went out to find it.

 West of Nebraska City.  Used 1869 to 1981.  South side of old SR2/I Road, about 100 ft east of SE corner of 52 road, 3 miles west of Q road.

 Building torn down by the end of 2014.
Photographed 8/1/14
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Nebraska City Unknown School

NE corner of 1st Corso and 15th St.  Possibly original site.  Was previously used as a house and a theater, now used as a church.  Right side addition.
Photographed 7/31/14
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Near Ashland, NE

On 8/7/06, on our way home from our 30th anniversary trip to Yellowstone, we stopped at the Strategic Air & Space Museum just west of Ashland, NE.  It used to called the Strategic Air Command Museum and was at Offut AFB south of Omaha, but in the mid-1990s they built the new museum and moved the planes.

Wanting to see if there were any planes behind the museum waiting restoration, we drove just north of the museum and saw this house made from a school.  The addition was fairly new and they had been stripping the paint on the school portion.

Update: We returned to the museum on 4/28/11 and took another look at this school.  Look at what a beautiful restoration job they did for fixing it up as their home:
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