One-Room-Schoolhouses

Stroud Township One-Room School (Monroe County)

by Gregg Obst on September 1, 2010

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Stroud Township One-Room School (Monroe County)

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Bell One-Room Schoolhouse (Monroe County, PA)

by Gregg Obst on August 31, 2010

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Bell One-Room Schoolhouse (Monroe County, PA)

Built in the 1870s, the Bell School housed students until 1953. It was given its name as the only school in Monroe county with a bell in the cupola on the roof. This historic one-room school is run by the Monroe County Historical Society. It is open for tours in July and August on Sundays from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. The typical one-room brick school houses a collection of books, artifacts and pictures, recreating the atmosphere of a small school in the late 1880s-early 1900s.

There is a great article available here that gives details on what it was like to attend the school as a child.

I shot this as seven RAW exposures at .7 stop variance and combined them into an HDR and tone mapped it using Photomatix Pro 4.0 beta.

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A little sanding, a little Thmpson’s Water Seal and it will be like new…

August 30, 2010

A double seat outhouse once used by school children in the late 1800s/early 1900s stands in disrepair in the back yard of the Werley’s Corner One-Room Schoolhouse. Located at the corner of Werley’s Corner Road and Carpet Road in Werley’s Corner, PA which is a remote suburb of Lehigh County, PA. I shot this after [...]

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Back to school

August 29, 2010

Original This historic, wooden one-room school is located on Neola Road in Saylorsburg, PA. I don’t know much about it and there was no sign indicating the actual school name or dates of operation. I’m going to continue to research this one. One of five historic one-room schools I shot on Saturday 8-28-2010. I shot [...]

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Kemp One-room Schoolhouse

August 9, 2010

The Kemp one-room schoolhouse was one of eleven that originally served the Greenwich Township area of northern Berks County, PA. This one is located on Kemp School Road just off of Kunkel Mill Road. I’m still researching this school. It’s in excellent shape and has an electric meter installed making me think it might have [...]

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Lenhartsville One-room Schoolhouse

August 7, 2010

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 [...]

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Willow Creek Mennonite One-room Schoolhouse

August 7, 2010

This one-room schoolhouse is located on Richmond Road in Fleetwood, PA. It is serviced by a single teacher and there are up to twenty two students at a time. The Mennonites, like the Amish, usually attend school from first grade up to eighth grade. The Willow Creek school has a school year of 180 days [...]

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Sodom School – Octagon shaped one room schoolhouse (Northumberland County, PA)

July 3, 2010

This octagonal one room schoolhouse was built about 1836 and was in use until 1915. It was renovated several times throughout the years, first in the 1930s and again in the 1960s. A major rebuild had to be performed in 1972 after flood damage. The latest renovations began in 2006 and went through 2008 which [...]

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One Room Schoolhouse at Rodale Institute

June 1, 2010

Sometimes you don’t know what is right under your nose. I work for the parent company that funds the Rodale Institute, an organic experimental and research farm near Kutztown, PA. The institutes’s book store is located in this red brick one room schoolhouse built in 1906. I had no idea this building was even there [...]

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One Room Schoolhouse @ The Pennsylvania German Cultural Center (Kutztown, PA)

April 24, 2010

While researching one room schoolhouses in Pennsylvania the other night, I came across a great example a mere four miles from where I live. Kutztown University hosts a permanent Pennsylvania German Cultural Center which includes examples of a German Bank Barn, Farm House, Cabins and this one room brick schoolhouse built around 1890. For a [...]

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