{"nrhp_refnum":"06000752","name":"Kelly View School","other_names":["097-0308"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Appalachia Elementary School, Norton Rd., US 23","address_restricted":false,"city":"Appalachia","county":"Wise County","state":"VA","lat":36.92706085000003,"lon":-82.74399404599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small, front-gabled, one-room frame schoolhouse in the coalfields of northwestern Wise County, Virginia, near Appalachia. It was probably built around 1892 and now sits on the grounds of Appalachia Elementary School after being moved a short distance around 1976.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be a rare surviving one-room schoolhouse in the region and the only surviving pre-World War I non-domestic structure in the Kelly View community. It is significant in Education and in Social History, because the building and grounds served as the centre of community life from the late 19th century through much of the 20th century. It hosted classes, wartime ration book preparation and Sunday worship services.","narrative":"Kelly View School is a small one-room frame schoolhouse in the coalfields of Wise County, Virginia, now located on the grounds of Appalachia Elementary School. Land for it was conveyed to the county's school trustees in 1892, and photographs from 1923-1924 show it much as it appears today. It has a front gable, wood weatherboards, two-over-two windows, rough-sawn board interior walls, a pot-bellied stove and antique student desks. It had no running water or bathroom, and older boys carried firewood and water. Teachers taught grades one through five or six, sometimes to as many as 36 pupils. The building also served the community: ration books were typed there during World War II, and Sunday worship services were held there from about 1943. It stopped serving as a school around 1959 or 1960 and later housed a church. It was listed as a rare surviving one-room school and as a center of local social life.","period_of_significance":"c. 1892 - c. 1959","architect_builder":"unknown (tradition says Mr. J.J. Kelly built the school)","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Taken out of service as a school in 1959 or 1960, later used as Kelly View Church, then restored by a former student and his family; the form lists current function as vacant/not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.16381-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/6841/41684196/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000752.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000752/2493f17a67-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000752/2493f17a67-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kelly_View_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kelly_View_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684196","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_View_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15235409"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/wise-county/kelly-view-school-06000752/"}