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Mt. Hygeia Schoolhouse

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c. 1840. 194 Hartford Pk. (near Mt. Hygeia Rd.)

The building type which seems to be most entwined with the churches of this rural town is the one-room schoolhouse of the simplest sort with paired doors flanking a centered window in its gabled entrance elevation. The Mt. Hygeia Shoolhouse continued in use until the completion of school consolidation in Foster in 1952. It was the last one-room schoolhouse to close in the town and, as this is written, the only one to have escaped renovation, although it is neglected.

Writing Credits

Author: 
William H. Jordy et al.
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What's Nearby

Dr. Solomon Drown House (Mount Hygeia)
North Foster Free Baptist Church
Zuriel Paine–Andrew Paine Farm
Church of the Messiah
Ezekiel Hopkins–William Potter House

Citation

William H. Jordy et al., "Mt. Hygeia Schoolhouse", [Foster, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-FO36.

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