Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Madison #1, Wray/Young, North Liberty, IA

We had seen this building many years earlier and thought it looked like it might have been a school.  The we watched as the owners modified it and put a couple additions on.  Still wondering, we had a friend who had lived in the area for decades and she said it was indeed a one-room school.  So in December 2007 we finally took a couple shots of it.  This house/school is one mile north of our house in North Liberty, on State Highway 965 (old US 218).
Update, 10/18/10.  This house is now for sale, and the flier says, "Unique Single Family Home Built From a Restored Schoolhouse."  As you can see in the above photos, it has an addition on both sides, plus it has a 3-car garage.  Description of the inside tells of some excellent work.  Price is "reduced" to $285,000!
More photos from 1/20/11 show more of the house overall 
The following photo was taken from Hendershot Rd. on 6/15/16

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3 comments:

  1. SBNovember 1, 2014 at 10:29 PM

    I live in this house and I am searching for pictures of the house when it was used as a one room school house.

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  2. Glenn E. ChatfieldNovember 2, 2014 at 7:54 AM

    You might try at the Johnson County historical people down in Coralville, next to the automobile museum. They have a lot of information about the schools. We keep trying to find time to get there ourselves!

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  3. Glenn E. ChatfieldOctober 29, 2023 at 3:47 PM

    Hi Barbara,

    If you'd like to share it you can email it to me at jude3.gctwm@Yahoo.com and I will post it here with whatever information you want to add.

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