{"nrhp_refnum":"79001850","name":"Claysville School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Claysville on SR 15","address_restricted":false,"city":"Claysville","county":"Guernsey County","state":"OH","lat":39.93841825100003,"lon":-81.67108784699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-room, shiplap-sided wood frame schoolhouse on the east side of Guernsey County Road 15, about one-half mile north of the village of Claysville, Guernsey County, Ohio, built in 1900.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its local educational importance to Claysville and its character as an intact, unaltered example of early twentieth-century rural vernacular school architecture. It is described as the only tangible vestige of the village's former autonomy in education. Its two-room plan is described as unique in the area, since most rural schools of the period had one room.","narrative":"Claysville School is a rectangular wood frame schoolhouse with shiplap siding, built in 1900 on the east side of Guernsey County Road 15, about half a mile north of Claysville, Ohio. It rests on a sandstone foundation and has a slate gable roof with the construction year set in blue slate. A small belfry with its bell still in place sits at the west end of the ridge. Inside, a track-mounted folding door divides two classrooms, one used for primary pupils and one for secondary pupils. The building replaced an earlier school on the west side of the village and served the community until the early 1930s, when the county board of education closed it and students were bussed to nearby towns. Unlike most rural schools of its era, it was built with two rooms rather than one, which the nomination describes as unique in the area. The exterior and interior remain largely unaltered, and the building now serves as a community center and reunion site for former students.","period_of_significance":"1900","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Early twentieth-century vernacular educational architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as occupied, in good condition and relatively unaltered; in recent years used as a community center and site of an annual reunion of former students.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.214271-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001850.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001850/70c683dd7a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001850/70c683dd7a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claysville_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claysville_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988790","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138348989"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/guernsey-county/claysville-school-79001850/"}