District 10 School
The District 10 School is a former schoolhouse just north of New York State Route 28 and New York State Route 30 south of Margaretville , New York in the United States. The stone schoolhouse was built, demolished and rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century.
The building is the only remaining structure in the large area that New York City expropriated when the Pepacton Reservoir was built nearby . Today the building serves as a local historical museum. In 1998, it was entered on the National Register of Historic Places with the outhouse.
description
The school with the outside toilet is at the end of a small dirt road north of the State Route about two miles south of Margaretville, just on the north side of the reservoir. The land in the vicinity of the former school building is forested and not otherwise built on. The East Branch of the Delaware River , which is dammed by the dam, is a short distance to the northwest.
The main building is a small, one-story structure. It is about eleven meters long and eight meters wide. The walls and the foundation are made of field stones, the gable roof is covered with tarred shingles. At the front end of the roof ridge , a small sitting belfry and from brick masonry fireplace is located at the rear of the building. The gable triangles are clad with transverse wooden planks. A simple wooden door sits centrally on the southern front of the building. There are three windows on both sides of the building, two windows are on the back. A stone step leads up to the door. It was complemented by a modern wooden wheelchair ramp . On the left side of the door, the year 1820 is carved into a stone at a height of about 1.75 m above the ground .
A small vestibule inside opens up to the actual classroom, the floor and walls of which are covered with wooden planks up to a height of around 125 cm. The walls above and similarly the ceiling are made of sheet metal. A heater is at the back of the room in which also another school board and school desks and other school typical objects, some of which are original.
The toilet block is located northeast of the school building. It is a small building in timber frame construction and measures 2 by 3.2 m and has a stone base. The walls are clad with wooden floorboards, the roof is also made of tar paper. Inside there are two rooms, one for boys and one for girls.
history
Dunraven had its own school as early as 1765. At that time a school was built out of wood. This burned down sometime after it was built, but before 1820. In that year, a local couple transferred the small plot of land on which the building stands today to the school district, with the condition that the property may only be used for educational or religious purposes. This condition also extended to every subsequent owner. Local residents built a school out of fieldstone, an unusual material for a school building in Upstate New York , but this is understandable given the abundance of material in Dunraven. The appearance of this building has not been handed down, it was probably quite similar to the current building. The original toilet block, the exact construction date of which is unknown, did not have any separate toilets.
By 1857 the school had fallen into disrepair and was abandoned. The stones were put aside and reused in the new building in 1860. Eighty years later the small school districts were merged and the school was part of the Margaretville Central School District from 1940 .
After the Second World War , New York City set about acquiring or expropriating the land required to build the Pepacton Reservoir, and first tried to override the notarial deed of the foundation in order to be able to demolish the schoolhouse. These efforts were unsuccessful and the attempt was abandoned. The school district then tried to sell the building, but voters decided against it. The school district then transferred the schoolhouse to the Town of Middletown for use as a history museum. It also serves a number of other public purposes.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Kathleen LaFrank: National Register of Historic Places nomination, District 10 School ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . October 8, 1997. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 20 ″ N , 74 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ W.