{"nrhp_refnum":"02000306","name":"Indian Rock Schoolhouse","other_names":["District #3 Schoolhouse","Webutuck County Schoolhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mygatt Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amenia","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.861298188000035,"lon":-73.54615855399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room Gothic Revival schoolhouse built c. 1850 on a one-acre parcel on the north side of Mygatt Road, on the outskirts of the hamlet of Amenia, Dutchess County, New York. It was built as the Amenia District #3 schoolhouse.","why_significant":"It is described as the last of 12 rural schools in this part of eastern Dutchess County to survive intact as a school building. It is a rare example of a nineteenth-century one-room schoolhouse and of the standard school type that arose during mid-nineteenth-century educational reform in New York. Its steep gable roof and Gothic detailing reflect the Gothic Revival influence on school design.","narrative":"Set alone in an open meadow on Mygatt Road near the hamlet of Amenia, this small timber-framed schoolhouse dates from about 1850. It measures 17 by 26 feet and has a laid stone foundation, board-and-batten siding, a steeply pitched gable roof and Gothic Revival details above its windows. Separate entrances for boys and girls sit near the rear of the side elevations, and the single classroom retains low wainscoting, traces of plaster and blackboards, and channels in the floor where fixed desks once stood. The school served as District #3 until about 1927, and the rear was later altered for storage. In the mid-nineteenth century Amenia had twelve one-room schools, and this is the only one that survives intact as a school. It was listed as an example of New York's mid-century school reform and of Gothic Revival influence on rural school design. The land was donated in 2000 to a nonprofit association formed to restore it.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use; in fair condition after decades of neglect, with window openings sealed for about 20 years. A nonprofit association was formed to restore it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.58096-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02000306.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000306/c817ae4aed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000306/c817ae4aed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_Rock_Schoolhouse,_Amenia,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Indian_Rock_Schoolhouse,_Amenia,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317380","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rock_Schoolhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706527"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/indian-rock-schoolhouse-02000306/"}