{"nrhp_refnum":"08000783","name":"Hornby School","other_names":["Shadduck School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"10,000 Station Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenfield","county":"Erie County","state":"PA","lat":42.11632000000003,"lon":-79.86299999999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame one-room schoolhouse on the north side of Station Road in Greenfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, built in 1875 with a frame two-seat outhouse and a hand pump on the same lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant under Criterion A for its role in rural education in Greenfield Township from the mid-1800s through its 1956 closing, and under Criterion C as an excellent example of late nineteenth-century wood vernacular schoolhouse design. It is described as the only one of the township's six surviving one-room schools that remains unaltered and has never been used for another purpose.","narrative":"A one-room wood-frame schoolhouse on Station Road in Greenfield Township, Erie County, built in 1875 by contractor Fred Hart to replace an older log school on the Shadduck family land. The 22-by-36-foot building has a gable roof of cedar shakes, a belfry added in 1900 that holds a bell, and an interior with tongue-and-groove floors, wainscoting and black slate chalkboards. It served the township's rural children until the district's one-room system ended in 1956, when it was auctioned and then sat vacant until the Hornby School Restoration Society was formed in 1973. The nomination regards it as the least altered one-room school in Greenfield Township and Erie County, since the other schools of its era were converted to other uses or destroyed. Its value lies in preserving the original building type and the record of a township school system that served children from age six to eighteen.","period_of_significance":"1875-1956","architect_builder":"Fred Hart (builder)","architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored by the Hornby School Restoration Society after a period of vacancy; now operates as a museum with display and storage areas.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.536113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/08000783.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000783/a51f6cec54-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000783/a51f6cec54-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Niagara","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornby_School,_June_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara</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:Hornby_School,_June_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995705","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornby_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15225171"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/erie-county/hornby-school-08000783/"}