{"nrhp_refnum":"00000349","name":"Southwood Two-Teacher School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4621 Barker Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamesville","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":42.995177676000026,"lon":-76.10897808299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, yellow brick, Art Deco style two-room rural schoolhouse at 4621 Barker Hill Road near Jamesville, Town of Onondaga, Onondaga County, New York, designed in 1933 and built in 1937-38.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a local example of the 1920s-30s national movement to improve rural school design and keep small rural schools, supporting Criterion A in community planning and development and social history. It also meets Criterion C as a representative two-room school of its period and a distinctive small-scale Art Deco design by Syracuse architect Fred B. O'Connor. It is described as a rare example of its type in central New York.","narrative":"Southwood Two-Teacher School is a small yellow brick schoolhouse near Jamesville in Onondaga County, built in 1937-38 from a 1933 design by Syracuse architect Fred B. O'Connor. Its Art Deco details include brick pilasters, corbelled courses and decorative window panels. Inside, a central hallway separates a main classroom, divisible into two rooms, from a utility core with indoor bathrooms. The school sits on a site assembled from sixteen lots of the Southwood Subdivision, laid out by developer Joseph Rose. It reflects a national push in the 1920s and 1930s to improve rural schools while resisting consolidation, and its layout follows federal guidance on orientation, light and room arrangement. The school served pupils until 1966, when consolidation into the Jamesville-DeWitt district ended its use, and it was sold in 1968. A later pitched roof covers the original flat roofs, but the main classroom largely remains as designed. It is considered a rare surviving example of its kind in central New York.","period_of_significance":"1937-1938","architect_builder":"Fred O'Connor, architect, Syracuse","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use; the school operated until 1966, was sold in 1968 for an interior coverings business, and a late-1980s pitched roof was added over the original flat roofs.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.424083-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000349.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000349/72ab6bbbc7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000349/72ab6bbbc7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southwood_school.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southwood_school.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320451","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwood_Two-Teacher_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7571499"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/southwood-two-teacher-school-00000349/"}