This one-room schoolhouse was one of eleven that originally served the Greenwich Township area of northern Berks County, PA. This one is located near the corner of Obyle Road and Yarnell Road just off PA route 737 . Google Maps lists the area as part of Lenhartsville but it is right on the corner of Lenhartsville, Krumsville and the outer Kempton area. I couldn’t find any information on the name or years of operation other than the fact that the Greenwich Township schools were consolidated into an official school system in 1944. Most historic One-Room Schools in Pennsylvania closed as a result of consolidation procedures, mostly in the 1950s.
I believe the school is probably owned by the farmer across the street. It is has lumber stacked on the front porch. A flat bed trailer for a bulldozer is located on the land just in front of the school making this particular school a little limited in good composition angles. The school itself looks to be in sound shape externally.
I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image. One of three one-room schoolhouses that I shot on Saturday 8-7-2010 thanks to my Dad who played taxi driver while my leg is still on the mend.
