{"nrhp_refnum":"05000519","name":"Wrede School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3929 S. TX 16","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fredericksburg","county":"Gillespie County","state":"TX","lat":30.232962976000067,"lon":-98.90969576799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural school complex on a 3.4-acre site southwest of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, Texas, with a frame schoolhouse built in 1896, a stone outbuilding, a privy and a well.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant under Criterion A in the area of Education at the local level. It is a small rural school that retains much of its original appearance and some original furnishings. It reflects the value German-settled communities placed on education and also served as a social center.","narrative":"Wrede School is a small rural school complex on 3.4 acres just southwest of Fredericksburg, Texas, beside Live Oak Creek. The main building is an 18-by-32-foot board-and-batten frame schoolhouse erected in 1896, with a tin roof, a deep front porch and original desks, blackboards and a painted stage curtain bearing local advertisements. A limestone outbuilding from about 1910, a privy and a hand-pumped well complete the site. A school district was established here in 1871 on land sold to local trustees, and the school operated until it was annexed to the Fredericksburg district in 1960. Enrollment peaked at 53 students in the 1950s. The site also served as a community gathering place, later hosting local clubs and elections. It is listed for its role in education and for preserving an intact picture of rural schooling in a German-settled county, where many country schools remained in use longer than elsewhere in Texas.","period_of_significance":"1896-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as social/clubhouse; the school closed in 1960 and the property is described as virtually unchanged since then.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.069522-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/9721/40972112/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/05000519.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000519/f06c9a180d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000519/f06c9a180d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werde1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Werde1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972112","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrede_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8037712"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/gillespie-county/wrede-school-05000519/"}