Niagara Public School, today known as School House Bed and Breakfast, was a public school in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario (then called Newark in the Province of Canada ). The school house is located at 40 Platoff Street [1] [2] in the National Historic District known as Niagara-on-the-Lake or Old Town.
The large two-storey brick building was built in 1859 [3] as a public school, serving the town's children until 1948 when the new Parliament Oak School was built nearby. [4] [5] The construction of the school was a result of The Great Swap, the first and largest surrender of a portion of the military reserve around Fort Mississauga since its boundaries were created in 1796. [4] The portion of land was sold to the Honourable James Crooks, who in 1854 sold a partial lot to the Town Council of Niagara for "uses of Common Schools and Grammar Schools in the Town of Niagara forever." [4] It has also been described as being on the military grounds, and historic photos show cadets or other soldiers lined up outside. [6] One of its early principals was Janet Carnochan in 1872. [7] [8] [9] The school house served elementary grades and had four classrooms, two on each floor. In 1882, the school began serving both Roman Catholic and Protestant students. [10] The school was used until 1948, after which it was converted into a four unit apartment building. [3] In 2002 a long renovation began, and in 2005 it was converted into a bed and breakfast named the Allison House Inn, renamed BranCliff Inn in 2012, and School House Bed and Breakfast in 2020. [6]
The National Historic Site designation of the historic district, in 2003, includes buildings built from 1815 to 1859 in a 25 block area having "location close to the Niagara River on Front Street and extending approximately four blocks north to Castlereagh Street". [11] The school is on the southeast corner of a block that is wholly included in the district; adjacent blocks across Platoff and Davy Streets from the school are not included in the district. [12]
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