{"nrhp_refnum":"12000539","name":"Sydenstricker School","other_names":["Pohick School #8","Upper Pohick Community League Hall","VDHR File No. 029-0154"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8511 Hooes Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.75744836700005,"lon":-77.23902540499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room frame schoolhouse at 8511 Hooes Road in Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia, built in 1928 by William Beauregard Wooster to replace an earlier school on the site that burned. It sits beside Sydenstricker Methodist Chapel and its cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant under Criterion A in education and social history. It was the last one-room school built before consolidation in Fairfax County and the last one operating there, closing in 1939. It later became the home of the Upper Pohick Community League, a long-running community association. Under Criterion C it is described as the best preserved early-20th-century one-room schoolhouse in the county, still on its original site.","narrative":"Built in 1928 on Hooes Road in Springfield, Virginia, this one-story, front-gabled one-room schoolhouse replaced an earlier school on the same spot that burned. William Beauregard Wooster built it with weatherboard walls, a standing-seam metal roof, a concrete foundation and nine-over-nine wooden windows. A small cloakroom with a belfry was added before 1939 and later became a kitchen. The original heart-pine floor, beaded-board wainscoting and school bell survive. The school closed in 1939 and was the last operating one-room school in Fairfax County. The Upper Pohick Community League bought it in 1954 and has used it as a community center since, hosting dances, picnics and civic meetings. It was recognized as a county landmark in 1971. Its listing rests on its role in local education and community life and on its status as the best preserved early-20th-century one-room schoolhouse in the county, still on its original site.","period_of_significance":"1928-1962","architect_builder":"Wooster, William Beauregard (1857 - 1945)","architectural_style":"OTHER: One-room school (vernacular)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a community hall and center by the Upper Pohick Community League, which has owned it since 1954; the building is described as largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.715358-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/6805/41680541/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/12000539.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000539/f92d56ec54-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000539/f92d56ec54-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SYDENSTRICKER_SCHOOL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:SYDENSTRICKER_SCHOOL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680541","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydenstricker_Schoolhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713282"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/sydenstricker-school-12000539/"}