{"nrhp_refnum":"04000701","name":"District Number 7 School","other_names":["Speedsville School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mill Rd. at the Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Speedsville","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.30437511400004,"lon":-76.25303937599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-11-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, one-room frame schoolhouse on the Speedsville Common in Speedsville, in the Town of Caroline, Tompkins County, New York, built around 1850 and serving as a public school until 1956.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant under Criterion C as a largely intact mid-nineteenth-century rural one-room schoolhouse with Greek Revival detailing. It is also significant under Criterion A for its link to the history of education in the Town of Caroline, where it served District Number 7 until the district was dissolved in 1956.","narrative":"District Number 7 School is a one-room frame schoolhouse on the Speedsville Common in the hamlet of Speedsville, Tompkins County, New York. Built around 1850, it measures about 30 by 50 feet and rests on a rough stone foundation. Its clapboard walls are trimmed with Greek Revival details, including a wide plain frieze and cornice returns on the gable ends. Inside, a front vestibule with two entrances, once separate for boys and girls, leads to a single large classroom. The building served as the district's public school until 1956. School board minutes from 1902 onward record debates over consolidation with neighboring Newark Valley, repairs, and the curriculum. After the district was dissolved, the trustees donated the building to St. John's Episcopal Church, which has used it as a Sunday school and community space. It was listed for its largely intact form as a rural schoolhouse and for its role in local education history.","period_of_significance":"c1850-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Since 1956 the building has been used by St. John's Episcopal Church as a Sunday school and for social functions, and it is still used that way.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.760674-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000701.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000701/8305102f7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000701/8305102f7c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DISTRICT_NUMBER_7_SCHOOL,_TOMPKINS_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DISTRICT_NUMBER_7_SCHOOL,_TOMPKINS_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322487","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Number_7_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5283353"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/district-number-7-school-04000701/"}