District Six Schoolhouse

United States historic place


District Six Schoolhouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


43°55′51″N 73°17′50″W / 43.93083°N 73.29722°W / 43.93083; -73.29722
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1833 (1833)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	77000093^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 18, 1977

The District Six Schoolhouse is a historic school building on Elmendorf Road in Shoreham, Vermont. Built about 1833 and now converted into a residence, this modest stone structure is one of Vermont's oldest surviving district schoolhouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1]

Description

The former District Six Schoolhouse stands in a rural area of northeastern Shoreham, on the southwest side of Elmendorf Road. It is a modest single-story stone structure, measuring just 20 by 25 feet (6.1 m × 7.6 m), with a gabled roof. It is built of course rubble limestone and covered by a standing seam metal roof. The street-facing facade has two bays, with the entrance in a recess on the left and a sash window on the right, and has a half-round window in the gable. The southeast roof face has a gabled wood-frame dormer, part of alterations made to convert the building to residential use. A single-story wood-frame ell extends to the rear.^[2]

The school was built in 1833 out of locally quarried limestone, and is a good example of late Federal period vernacular architecture. It is one of a number of surviving stone district schools in the region. It remained in use as a schoolhouse until the 1940s.^[2] After standing vacant for some years, it was rehabilitated and converted into a residence.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b John R. Axtell (1977). "NRHP nomination for District Six Schoolhouse". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-09-22. with photos from 1977

National Register of Historic Places in Addison County, Vermont

National
Historic
Landmark

Robert Frost Farm
Mount Independence
Rokeby
Emma Willard House

Districts

Bristol Downtown Historic District
Camp Marbury Historic District
Colonel Ephraim and Sarah Doolittle Farm
Fenn Farm
Field Farm
John Hamilton Farmstead
The Heights
Middlebury Village Historic District
Salisbury Fish Hatchery
Shard Villa
University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm
Vergennes Historic District
Vergennes Residential Historic District
Witherell Farm

Buildings

Commercial	Chimney Point Tavern Chipman's Point Cornwall General Store Dog Team Tavern † Old Stone Blacksmith Shop Salisbury Village Blacksmith Shop Stagecoach Inn Waybury Inn
Educational	Cotton Free Library District School No. 1 District Six Schoolhouse Lampson School School House and Town Hall Old Stone Row
Government	Cornwall Town Hall Monkton Town Hall Salisbury Town Hall School House and Town Hall
Industrial	Hoag Gristmill and Knight House Complex Stone Mill
Religious	Addison Baptist Church Brooksville Advent Church † First Congregational Church First Congregational Church of Cornwall Parsonage Leicester Meeting House Monkton Borough Baptist Church Ripton Community House Salisbury Congregational Church Shoreham Congregational Church South Starksboro Friends Meeting House and Cemetery Starksboro Village Meeting House Union Church Union Meetinghouse Wesleyan Methodist Church
Residential	Bottum Farm Capts. Louis and Philomene Daniels House Paris and Anna Fletcher House Glen Dale Hand's Cove Hawley's Ferry House House at 215 School Street Ruth Stone House Gen. Samuel Strong House John Strong House Samuel Paddock Strong House Wilcox-Cutts House
Transportation	Larrabee's Point Complex New Haven Junction Depot Vergennes Station House