Brick School House (Coventry, Connecticut)

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Coventry Brick School House
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Location within Connecticut
Established1825
Location1019 Merrow Rd
Coventry, Connecticut 06238
USA
Coordinates 41°49′06″N72°20′38″W / 41.818409°N 72.343786°W / 41.818409; -72.343786 Coordinates: 41°49′06″N72°20′38″W / 41.818409°N 72.343786°W / 41.818409; -72.343786
Type Local history museum
Website ctcoventryhistoricalsociety.dreamhosters.com

The Brick School House is a local history museum in Coventry, Connecticut. The small brick building functioned as a one-room school from 1825 to 1953. It is the only one-room schoolhouse open to the public in Connecticut. [1]

The Brick School House is owned and managed by the Coventry Historical Society. The interior features nineteenth-century school desks and displays of photographs and other memorabilia donated by former pupils and teachers. The museum is open to the public on the first and third Sundays of the month, May through October. Admission, including tours, is free. The museum is known locally for its "Sundae on a Sunday" ice cream social on Father's Day. [2]

Mabel Walbridge Hall had taught at the schoolhouse from 1913-1925 as had her grandmother and mother before her. In 1967, Hall persuaded the town council to sell the schoolhouse to the Coventry Historical Society for $1. [3] Hall wrote the booklet The Brick School Story (Coventry Historical Society, 1977) to raise funds for the schoolhouse's restoration. [4]

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References

  1. Coventry Historical Society (2019). "Coventry's One-Room Schoolhouse Map" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "The Coventry Historical Society – Located in Connecticut USA" . Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  3. Coventry Village Improvement Society (2003). Coventry. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 108. ISBN   978-0-7385-1231-0.
  4. Messier, Betty Brook; Aronson, Janet Sutherland (1987). The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut. Coventry, CT: 275th Anniversary Committee. p. 194.