{"nrhp_refnum":"11001005","name":"Stony Point District School No. 4","other_names":["Pyngyp School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Central Dr. at Cedar Flats Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stony Point","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.239931065000064,"lon":-74.02117024599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-01-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story, wood-frame one-room rural schoolhouse built c. 1915 on Central Drive at Cedar Flats Road in Stony Point, Rockland County, New York, known as the Pyngyp School, with a small c. 1970s rear addition.","why_significant":"It is a late example of the traditional one-room rural schoolhouse type, built on long-standing models with only limited Gothic-inspired detail. It served Stony Point's District No. 4 students from c. 1915 until local schools were centralized in 1945. It is nominated at the local level under Criterion A for education and Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Built around 1915 on Central Drive in Stony Point, Rockland County, the Pyngyp School was the one-room schoolhouse for District No. 4. It is a modest wood-frame building with a steeply pitched gable roof, clapboard siding, a small open belfry, and a brick foundation. Two entrance vestibules open onto a single classroom with pine floors, a raised teacher's platform, and a band of windows on one side that reflects newer school design standards of the period. A small kitchen and bathroom addition was added in the 1970s. The school replaced a nineteenth-century building nearby, which was later used as a woodshed and then razed. Pupils were taught by a single teacher until 1945, when the area's schools were centralized. The building afterward housed a game and conservation club and later became a community meeting place and polling station. It is regarded as a late, little-altered example of the rural one-room school type, with only vague Gothic character.","period_of_significance":"c. 1915- c. 1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Gothic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Since the school closed in 1945 it has served briefly as a game and conservation club home, then as a community meeting place and polling station.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.6989-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11001005.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11001005/7eda6df598-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11001005/7eda6df598-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STONY_POINT_DISTRICT_SCHOOL_NO._4_ROCKLAND_COUNTY_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:STONY_POINT_DISTRICT_SCHOOL_NO._4_ROCKLAND_COUNTY_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321516","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Point_District_School_No._4","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23092102"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/stony-point-district-school-no-4-11001005/"}