{"nrhp_refnum":"81000528","name":"New Enterprise Public School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off PA 869, South Woodbury Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Enterprise","county":"Bedford County","state":"PA","lat":40.17144958000006,"lon":-78.40746531399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-10-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick elementary school building in New Enterprise, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, measuring 28' 2\" by 42' 2\" with a belltower on the roof. It was built in 1881 and served as an elementary school, with later uses including vocational agriculture, junior high classes and storage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its role in education in Bedford County and the Commonwealth. It was an unusually substantial brick school for its time in a region where one-room frame schoolhouses were the local standard. It also hosted summer Normal School teacher training and adult literary society meetings, and later vocational agriculture classes suited to the region's dairy economy.","narrative":"Built in 1881 in New Enterprise, this two-story brick building was the village's elementary school, with four grades taught in each of two groups. Its brick construction, with stone foundation, cartwheel window and belltower, was considered very progressive when most local schoolhouses were one-room frame buildings. The school also hosted summer Normal School courses that trained local teachers in more depth than had been available before, and it was the meeting place of the La Clede Literary Society, which offered adults voluntary education. High school classes were briefly held there in 1917-18. After the elementary pupils moved to a new school in 1928, the building housed vocational agriculture and shop classes and evening Young Farmer classes, reflecting the importance of dairying to the region. Junior high classes met there from 1957 to 1963. The building is significant as a surviving example of the county's education history and the growth of public schooling in Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":"1881","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Being stabilized and remodeled for remedial reading classes using Title I monies; interior partly repainted and carpeted; second floor used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.413502-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/81000528.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000528/d448e0dbb6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000528/d448e0dbb6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cromdog","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Enterprise_Public_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cromdog</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:New_Enterprise_Public_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996707","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Enterprise_Public_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15262044"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bedford-county/new-enterprise-public-school-81000528/"}