Southwest District School (Bloomfield, Connecticut)

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Southwest District School
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Location 430 Simsbury Rd., Bloomfield, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°49′4″N72°46′2″W / 41.81778°N 72.76722°W / 41.81778; -72.76722 Coordinates: 41°49′4″N72°46′2″W / 41.81778°N 72.76722°W / 41.81778; -72.76722
Area 0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built 1858 (1858)
Built by Grant,David
NRHP reference # 92000904 [1]
Added to NRHP July 24, 1992

The Southwest District School is a historic school building at 430 Simsbury Road in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Built in 1858, it is one of the town's few surviving 19th-century district school buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

Bloomfield, Connecticut Town in Connecticut, United States

Bloomfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,486 at the 2010 census.

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

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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Description and history

The Southwest District School is located in a rural-residential area of southwestern Bloomfield, on the east side of Simsbury Road (Connecticut Route 185) a short way south of its junction with High Hill Road. It is set close to the road on a very small parcel of land. It is a single-story stone structure, with a gabled roof. The stone appears to be locally quarried rock, cut in random sizes and shapes, with square-cut corner blocks. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with sandstone sills and lintels. The street-facing gable facade has two windows, while the south-facing facade has the entrance at the left end, and three windows to its right. The door opens into a small vestibule, which has had a closet partitioned off the far end, with the balance of the building occupied by the classroom. The vestibule is finished in tongue-and-groove wood boards, while the main chamber is plastered, with wide moulding. [2]

Connecticut Route 185 highway in Connecticut

Route 185 is a Connecticut state highway in the western Hartford suburbs, running from Simsbury to West Hartford.

The school was built in 1858 by David Grant, who was listed in local census records as a farmer. The school was built to serve the predominantly rural agricultural families of the area, and remained in operation until 1922, when the town closed the last of its district schools. The school's stone construction was fairly typical of rural construction in the area, where a number of farmhouses were also built out of locally quarried materials. [2]

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut Wikimedia list article

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut.

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