ORIGINS

I grew up in a small Ohio town and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike). As the years went by I watched this wonderful, familiar friend fall apart. After I married the school really began to deteriorate. Every time we visited the area I would want to take a photo of the school but never did. Finally, when we went specifically for the task, the school was gone. It was a huge loss for me and, since that time, whenever we pass a one-room school it is a joy to stop to take a picture or two. Thus, our collection here and the blog with schools in other states. Jill :oD

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Hoggatt School, Ames, IA

Used as a school from 1862 to 1867.  The school was originally in Washington Township near the intersection of the Lincoln Highway and Maple (St? Ave?).  Used many times also as a church, and moved several times after 1893 until it ended up at 1008 3rd St in Ames, IA, where it was used as a house.

 In 1980 the school was donated to the Ames Historical Society, and the following year it was moved to the playground of Meeker Elementary School.  Restoration was completed in 1983. 

 Due to construction of new buildings beginning in 2014, the school was moved to its current location on the west side of Meeker Elementary School, just north of 18th St on Burnett Ave.

 Full information about the school can be found here.  (Thanks to Casie Vance of the Ames Historical Society for the information about the school.)

 Photographed 6/29/15
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Grant Township #?, Unknown School

About 1.5 miles east of I35 on Old Lincoln Highway/old US 30/E41.  Exactly .3 miles east of 580th St, on the north side of E41, facing west.  Now a house, address 58327.

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Unknown School, North of Colo

This school, which is being used as a garage, is about 3 miles north of Colo on US65, on the east side of the road.  You really don’t notice it when approaching from the north due to trees, but there are three windows on the north side also.  Address is 19820.  Of course there is no telling when or where the school came from.

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Sherman #5, Center School

To find this school, proceed 3.5 miles north of Colo on US65 to county road E29/190th St and turn east.  Proceed one mile to 710th Ave, and the school is on the NE corner.  It has been preserved but not restored.  Built 1890.

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Washington #6, Center School

This school was originally in Washington Township.  It was moved to the center of the town of State Center, on the south side of Main Street, in 2002, and restored in 2003.  East of county S52, on the old Lincoln Highway (marker in front of the school in first photo.)

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