Buck Creek School

Buck Creek School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Perry, Kansas
Coordinates	39°4′4″N95°17′41″W / 39.06778°N 95.29472°W / 39.06778; -95.29472
Area	less than one acre
Built	c.1878
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	88002830 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1988

Buck Creek School is a historic school in Perry, Kansas.

It was built in about 1878, closed in 1952 and added to the National Register in 1988.

It is a 25 by 40 feet (7.6 m × 12.2 m) plan building with limestone blocks forming its west, south, and east walls, and limestone rubble forming its north wall. ^[2]

During the opening credits of the television movie The Day After, the school can be seen with both exterior and interior shots.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Martha Hagedorn-Krass (November 7, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Buck Creek School". National Park Service . Retrieved October 14, 2017. With 11 photos from 1998.