{"nrhp_refnum":"82001374","name":"Barker School","other_names":["Sixth Ward School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1925 Barker St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandusky","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.44527509400007,"lon":-82.72704662199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Barker School, also called Sixth Ward School, is a two-story Italianate limestone school building at 1925 Barker St. at Mills St. in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, built in 1874.","why_significant":"The inventory describes it as an exceptionally fine example of 19th-century school architecture executed in native limestone. It was built to serve children of the rapidly growing Sixth Ward, replacing an earlier school on Camp St. The reviewer noted it was not well qualified under Criterion A but meets Criterion C.","narrative":"Barker School is a two-story limestone school building at 1925 Barker Street in the west end of Sandusky, Ohio. Completed in 1874 in the Italianate style, it was built to replace an earlier school on Camp Street that served West Liberty, or West End, students. The neighborhood grew quickly in the late 19th century, and the Sixth Ward needed a larger building to educate its children. The walls are rock-faced ashlar limestone beneath an intersecting gable roof. Ornate brackets run along the roofline, and a tall chimney has a wide flared top with openings on each side. Windows are four-over-four with rounded heads and keystone decoration, and the front door sits under an arch with a lighted transom. Stone pilasters meet the roofline. An outside fire escape was added later, and in the 1920s a nearby building became a kindergarten. The property was listed for its fine architecture, meeting the architectural criterion, and remains in school use in very good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a school and owned by the Sandusky Board of Education; interior and exterior condition are listed as very good. An outside fire escape was added later.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.118204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001374.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001374/32238b5d39-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001374/32238b5d39-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barker_School_in_Sandusky.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barker_School_in_Sandusky.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984850","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137771102"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/barker-school-82001374/"}