District School No. 14

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District School No. 14
A tan building with brown roof and a cupola on its peaked roof and pale blue window and door trim. Shrubbery is in front with taller trees in back, and there is a blue and gold historical marker in front saying "1925: School House District 14 Has Been placed on the National Register of Historic Places 1997"
West elevation and north profile, 2008
LocationAcademy St., south of the junction with Birch Cr. Rd., Pine Hill, NY
Nearest cityKingston
Coordinates42°8′5″N 74°28′45″W / 42.13472°N 74.47917°W / 42.13472; -74.47917
Built1925[1]
Architectural styleColonial Revival, American Craftsman
NRHP reference No.97000111
Added to NRHPFebruary 21, 1997

The former District School No. 14 building is located on Academy Street in Pine Hill, New York, United States. It is a concrete-sided frame building erected in the mid-1920s.

It replaced an 1880s school on the site that had burned down. Architecturally it combines the

one-room schoolhouse era in rural areas such as that section of the Catskills
.

Classes were held there until 1960, when all the small local school districts in that area of western Ulster County were centralized. Afterwards it went through a variety of commercial reuses. Later it was transferred to the Town of Shandaken, which has converted it into the local historical museum known as the Town of Shandaken Historical Museum.

In 1997 the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the Pine Hill Historic District.

Building

The school is located on the east side of Academy Street a short distance south of

lots with mature tree cover. A short distance to the southeast is the Morton Memorial Library and Elm Street Stone Arch Bridge, both also listed on the Register.[1]

The building itself is a five-by-three-

foundation. It is faced in flat boards covered in stucco and wire lath. The peaked roof is covered in asphalt shingles and pierced by a small octagonal belfry.[1]

On the west (front)

eaves supported by knee brackets. The rear has a projecting entrance at ground level, where the slope exposes the entire basement.[1]

The main entrance's glazed double doors are framed in a

Palladian-style light. They open into an entrance vestibule with stairs leading to both the basement and upper story. The former, a gymnasium/auditorium, remains intact. In the latter, classroom walls have been removed to create an open space more in keeping with the building's current use. Flooring throughout the interior is the original maple tongue and groove planking. The walls and 12-foot (4 m) ceilings also retain their original plaster on lath.[1]

History

What was known at the time as the District 10 school had been on the Academy Street site since 1884, when a local resident, Richard Hill, deeded the land to the district for that purpose. That building was located on the southeast corner of the site, just east of the present building.[1]

In the early 1920s, it burned down. The community decided to rebuild on the site. The new school would be known as the District 14 school due to administrative changes to the area's districting.[1]

A new building was authorized in 1924. Thomas Storey, a builder from nearby Arkville, was hired for the job. He finished it in May 1925, at a cost of $23,000 ($400,000 in contemporary dollars[2]), $3,000 over the amount originally budgeted and five months after his original expected date of completion. Classes were held in the building starting that September.[1]

Its design combines two then-popular architectural styles. The hipped roof, belfry and entrance are hallmarks of the Colonial Revival style, while the brackets, exposed rafters, six-over-one sash windows and stucco finish are associated with the American Craftsman movement.[1]

The building's design was also affected by new standards the state put out in 1910 for school buildings. These led many rural communities to abandon traditional

Cleveland, which killed 175, most of them students.[1]

The school stayed in use until 1960, when the small rural districts in the area were consolidated into what is today the

village of Pine Hill, which used it for a while as a youth center. Later it would be used privately, serving as a coat manufacturing center and furniture repair shop. For those purposes, the walls upstairs were removed.[1]

In 1985, when Pine Hill's residents voted to

hamlets in the town, a recreated schoolroom, and antiques.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bonafide, John (October 1996). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, District School No. 14". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  2. ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. Journal Register Company. Archived from the original
    on February 20, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2010.

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