Liberty Township Schoolhouse No. 2

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Liberty Township Schoolhouse No. 2

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Liberty Township Schoolhouse No. 2, August 2011
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Location Junction of State Road 244 and County Road 600E, north of Waldron, Liberty Township, Shelby County, Indiana
Coordinates 39°29′51″N85°40′3″W / 39.49750°N 85.66750°W / 39.49750; -85.66750 Coordinates: 39°29′51″N85°40′3″W / 39.49750°N 85.66750°W / 39.49750; -85.66750
Area less than one acre
Built 1875 (1875)
Architect Meltzer Bros.
Architectural style Italianate, Gable-front
NRHP reference # 92001170 [1]
Added to NRHP September 4, 1992

Liberty Township Schoolhouse No. 2 is a historic one-room school building located in Liberty Township, Shelby County, Indiana. It was built in 1875, and is a one-story, rectangular, Italianate style brick building. It has a steep gable-front roof and features heavy scroll brackets, a scalloped frieze, and oculus vent. Also on the property is a contributing water pump. It remained in use as a school until about 1919. [2]

One-room school small rural school in which students of different ages are mixed in a single classroom

One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. While in many areas one-room schools are no longer used, it is not uncommon for them to remain in developing nations and rural or remote areas. Examples include remote parts of the American West, the Falklands, and the Shetland Islands.

Liberty Township, Shelby County, Indiana Township in Indiana, United States

Liberty Township is one of fourteen townships in Shelby County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,772 and it contained 723 housing units.

Shelby County, Indiana County in the United States

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-07-01.Note: This includes Tony Armstrong (November 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Liberty Township Schoolhouse No. 2" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-01. and Accompanying photographs