Hunter School

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Hunter School
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LocationJunction of U.S. Route 275 and 120th St.
Nearest city Tabor, Iowa
Coordinates 40°52′23″N95°40′18″W / 40.87306°N 95.67154°W / 40.87306; -95.67154 Coordinates: 40°52′23″N95°40′18″W / 40.87306°N 95.67154°W / 40.87306; -95.67154
Arealess than one acre
Built1901
ArchitectG.W. Clark
NRHP reference No. 06001220 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 09, 2007

Hunter School is a historic building near Tabor, Iowa, United States. The one-room schoolhouse was built in 1901. The school was named for John H. Hunter, a farmer and landowner on whose property the original school was built in 1901. Its use as a schoolhouse came to an end in 1920 when it was consolidated into the Tabor School District. The building was used as a township meeting and a polling place until 1990. Since then it has been maintained as a historical landmark. The former schoolhouse is a frame structure built on a brick foundation, and consists of a 24-by-26-foot (7.3 by 7.9 m) main block and an 8-foot (2.4 m) square bell tower-entrance. While the schoolhouse overall follows a basic plan for a one-room schoolhouse, it departs from that plan with the asymmetrically placed corner tower. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Patricia A. Eckhardt. "Hunter School" (PDF). National Park Service . Retrieved 2016-01-26.