There's an intact Little Red Schoolhouse in the Village of Catskill that still has its pot bellied stove and black boards. It is used for DAR meetings and small productions. Seats 30-40.
Regina Daly
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 11:30 AM, HIST- Historian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Bob,
Are you sure only a few of the one room school houses remain?
Here in Wayne
County with 15 – 20 one & two room school house per Town (we have 15 Towns here)
I would say that easily better than 75% are still standing.
Many, if not most were used as schools well into the 1940s when Centralization with busing became the norm.
Some are hard to recognize because they’ve been integrated into house construction or turned into farm storage…etc.
Out here in Wayne County (between Rochester and Syracuse) I get into trouble when I tell people that they are “A Dime A Dozen” when local groups want to save a school house that is threatened.
Among our 15 towns we must have 10 museums in school houses….some are absolutely pristine…perfect as the day the doors closed for the last time.
There is considerable emotional attachments to the school we attended.
With resources limited to a certain extent, you have to ask if this is the best way to use these limited resources.
Perhaps a better way would be to look for those old abandoned theaters and opera houses in our communities.
They can become a significant resource for the community because they can be used in so many ways in addition to being a historical resource
(meeting, weddings, theater, other performance…etc.)
Just a thought,
Peter
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From:[log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
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Subject: CDPTF Bleecker’s Old School Museum welcomes alumni and visitors
BLEECKER - For students today, it might be difficult to imagine an era
when going to school meant gathering in a single room with a single
teacher - and with no indoor plumbing, let alone an internet
connection.
Only a few of the region's old, one-room country schoolhouses remain
standing, serving as reminders of the time when many children in rural
communities stopped attending school after eighth grade.
In Bleecker, the old District No. 3 school, at 114 Lily Lake Road , has
been preserved by its owner, Nancy Buyce, who was a student there in
the 1940s and '50s before going to Gloversville
High School .
<http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/559224/Bleecker-s-Old-School-Museum-welcomes-alumni-and-visitors.html?nav=5009>
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Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady
County (NY) Public Library
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