Square Schoolhouse
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The Square Schoolhouse is a historic schoolhouse at the junction of New Hampshire Route 156 and Ledge Hill Road in Nottingham, New Hampshire. Built about 1850, it is one of the best-preserved mid-19th century schoolhouses in southern New Hampshire. It served as a school until 1920, and is now a local museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] It is named not for its shape, but for its location in Nottingham Square.
Description and history
The Square Schoolhouse stands southwest of the center of Nottingham in a rural setting, on the north side of Ledge Farm Road just southeast of its junction with New Hampshire Route 156. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and modest Greek Revival styling. Its front (gabled) facade is three bays wide, with windows topped by peaked lintels, and a center entrance framed by pilasters and a gabled pediment. The entrance opens into a vestibule area with a central staircase and cloakrooms on the sides, where many original period coathooks remain. The balance of each floor is occupied by a single classroom; that on the upper floor has a selection of student seating types dating from various periods of the school's use.[2]
The school was built in 1850 as the first schoolhouse in the town, not long after the state circulated guidelines for the construction of such buildings.[2] The school served the town until 1920.[3] The schoolhouse is now owned by the Else Cilley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.[4]
The second floor of the schoolhouse is operated as the Square Schoolhouse Museum by the Nottingham Historical Society. The museum is open by appointment.[5]
See also
References
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- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
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- Buildings and structures in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Defunct schools in New Hampshire
- Museums in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Education museums in the United States
- History museums in New Hampshire
- National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Nottingham, New Hampshire