{"nrhp_refnum":"04001437","name":"Ferndale School","other_names":["District 6 School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Uppper Ferndale Rd. and Ferndale Loomis Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ferndale","county":"Sullivan County","state":"NY","lat":41.776815304000024,"lon":-74.74094505399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame rural schoolhouse built around 1850 at the intersection of Ferndale Loomis Road and Upper Ferndale Road in the hamlet of Ferndale, town of Liberty, Sullivan County, New York. It served School District 6 and includes an original or early woodshed.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an intact, representative example of a nineteenth-century rural schoolhouse in Sullivan County. It illustrates how rural schools evolved, from a single classroom to two graded rooms with added indoor bathrooms. It also reflects more than a century of local education history, and it retains a high level of integrity.","narrative":"Built around 1850 to serve District 6 in the town of Liberty, this small wood-frame schoolhouse sits on a wide lawn at the corner of Ferndale Loomis Road and Upper Ferndale Road in the Sullivan County hamlet of Ferndale. It has a rectangular one-story form, a gable roof, clapboard siding, and nine-over-nine wooden sash windows with vertical-board shutters. Originally a single classroom, it was divided in the early twentieth century into two rooms, one for grades one to five and one for grades six to eight. A small cross-gabled wing with boys' and girls' bathrooms and a shared cloakroom was added at about the same time. A woodshed survives beside the rear entrance. The school was listed because it closely follows the common rural school model of its era and keeps its original windows and simple interiors. It recalls the small neighborhood schools that served the town of Liberty until they were phased out by the 1960s. The building is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"c1850-c1954","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"no style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as currently vacant; the nomination describes the building as completely intact to the period of significance apart from minor cosmetic changes.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.650795-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001437.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001437/72d9df79d8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001437/72d9df79d8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vonsky87","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferndale_School,_Ferndale_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vonsky87</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:Ferndale_School,_Ferndale_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322355","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferndale_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5445068"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/sullivan-county/ferndale-school-04001437/"}