{"nrhp_refnum":"80003207","name":"West School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off OH 93","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crooksville","county":"Perry County","state":"OH","lat":39.770948936000025,"lon":-82.10299098599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story, ell-shaped common bond brick school building with a square bell tower, located on a hill on the west side of Crooksville, Perry County, Ohio, and built in 1904. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination presents West School as the only intact vestige of early 20th century Crooksville. It was built during the village's first planned educational expansion, as potteries drew a growing population. It served as a school until 1929, and for a time in the early 'teens as a high school.","narrative":"West School is a 2½-story brick school building in Crooksville, Ohio, built in 1904. Ell-shaped in plan, it rests on a brick foundation and is recognized by a square bell tower set in the angle of the two wings. The gable-roofed wings have windows grouped in threes and trimmed with smooth-dressed stone, and a beveled stone beltcourse circles the building. The building sits on a hill at the west edge of the village, near the cemetery. It was built during Crooksville's first planned educational expansion, when new potteries were drawing a rapidly growing population. Its counterpart, East School, has since been heavily altered, which leaves West School as the only intact early 20th century building from that period. It was built under superintendent G. W. DeLong and served as a school for twenty-five years, briefly as a high school. After the 1920s oil boom paid for newer facilities, it was sold in 1929 to the Knights of Pythias, who used it as a hall until 1978.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 box checked; specific date 1904","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and in fair condition. It was partially remodeled for apartments, and the Knights of Pythias used it as a lodge hall until 1978.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.008608-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003207.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003207/4c50ff6881-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003207/4c50ff6881-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_School,_Crooksville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_School,_Crooksville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990880","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_School_(Crooksville,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16238549"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/perry-county/west-school-80003207/"}