One-Room Schoolhouse Museum

One-Room Schoolhouse Museum

One-Room Schoolhouse Museum West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
1871, 1963. Southeast of Hardway Hall

Nestled in a wooded glade below Hardway Hall, this little one-room schoolhouse, a simple rectangular block measuring 23 feet by 26 feet, adds a charmingly old-fashioned architectural note to the campus. Built in 1871 as the Snodgrass School, it originally stood at Rymer, twenty-eight miles away in the western part of Marion County. It was taken down in sections and rebuilt at the college in 1963 as a West Virginia Centennial project. A small shedroofed porch protects the entrance, and a tiny belfry presides over the gable of a standingseam metal roof. Furnishings typical of oneroom schools, including a potbellied stove, provide an authentic flavor inside. One of the oldest remaining elementary schools built after West Virginia was created, this is also one of the most authentic of the state's one-room schoolhouses that have been preserved and rehabilitated.

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