Tag: Old Schoolhouse

Picture of the Day for August 29, 2022

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Children have started to make their return for the new school year, but not too many will have their lessons taught in a one-room schoolhouse. This schoolhouse was built in 1915 for the Fairview school district in the Town of Tripp, Bayfield County, Wisconsin. In 1952 it was moved to the Port Wing to serve as the music room for the old South Shore School until that school was replaced by a new building. The Fairview school then traveled a few blocks and served as a law office. It made a fourth move in 2016, more than a 100 years after being built, to the Oulu Heritage Center where it now serves again as a one-room school for classes in the summer.

Fairview Schoolhouse

Fairview Schoolhouse

Picture of the Day for September 1, 2021

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Some of the area schools started last Wednesday and others started today, but the school the children went to this week probably didn’t look like this one. The Pioneer Schoolhouse was built in 1880 after Ephraim’s first log school in Door County became too small. In 1900, an addition doubled the size to accommodate 80 students and the tall windows allowed more natural light inside. After the school closed in 1949, the Ephraim Historical Foundation preserved the schoolhouse as a museum.

The Pioneer Schoolhouse Museum

The Pioneer Schoolhouse Museum

Picture of the Day for September 18, 2020

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While some schools are sitting vacant this year because of the virus, this school was closed in 1948 although continued to serve a purpose as a community club for a while, but now the historic structure has been torn down. The King School became a two room schoolhouse when the nearby Harvey School was moved by horses and sleigh to the same location in 1916 and were connected with the bell tower in the center. After the school closed, it lived on as the Cloverland Community Club and was the site of parties, dances, and other social activities. But when the doings at the club dwindled, soon the building deteriorated and vandals caused further damaged. The cost to restore the historic building was too great and it was torn down a few weeks ago, but the antique merry-go-round still remains.

Schoolhouse No More

Schoolhouse No More

Picture of the Day for May 5, 2017

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On a nice sunny spring day in the lower 70s, after a stretch of cold rainy ones, I would have trouble sitting still in school. Course many of the students in this school may have be absent in the spring time as some of the boys would have helped with the crop planting. This old school was built around 1898.

Old Potter School

Old Potter Schoolhouse

Picture of the Day for September 21, 2015

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On a nice day, the kids probably rather be outside playing than sitting in class and maybe the teacher of a one-room schoolroom would let them have a longer recess to enjoy the warm weather before the snow flies.

Camp Nine School building was built in 1902 to serve the children of logging Camp Nine near Glenwood City, Wisconsin and one of its old outhouses is nearby but I missed getting a picture of the important building.

Camp Nine School

Camp Nine School

Picture of the Day for August 26, 2015

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One local school district started classes yesterday, but the children attended a much bigger school than this old one-room schoolhouse found in Mercer, Wisconsin. It probably was not a wise thing to get on the bad side of the teacher since you would have the same teacher normally for most of your school years in that one room school.

I don’t know why the restored schoolhouse was named the Shirley Sleight School, but there was a Shirley Sleight who lived in Mercer.  She was born in 1917, married and had two children (by the 1940 census) and seemed active in the community as a performer in “Moonlight Serenade” in 1957 for a fund raiser a park and in 1998 was still active in the The Depot Historical Society and the depot museum, which is where the school is located, so I assumed it was named in honor of her service and volunteer work. She died in 2004.

Shirley Sleight School

Shirley Sleight School

 

And a peek inside.

Inside Shirley Sleight School

Picture of the Day for April 7, 2015

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Across rural America, many old one room schoolhouses (or even fancier multi-room schools like this one) are used for township halls for meetings and voting. So some rural schools, where bells once rang in the past to gather children and survived abandonment, have traffic through their doors again today as people cast their votes on election day.

Old Schoolhouses Survive as Town Halls

Old Schoolhouses Survive as Town Halls

Picture of the Day for October 3, 2014

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Not too many kids will be getting out of school on a Friday from a one room schoolhouse. Just down the road from the Dells Mill is the Dells Schoolhouse built in 1866, two years after the mill. While one room schools are not seen as often as they used to dot the landscape, but you probably knew someone who went to an one room school, whether yourself, parent, grandparent or great grandparent.

Dells School

Dells School

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