{"nrhp_refnum":"85000392","name":"Mt. Zion Schoolhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 747","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mt. Solon","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.33685179100007,"lon":-79.12676163199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-02-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Education","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame two-room public schoolhouse on Route 747 near Mt. Solon, Augusta County, Virginia, built in 1876 by an unknown builder and later moved to its present site by about 1915.","why_significant":"It is described as the only surviving two-room schoolhouse from the 1870s, the first decade of public school construction in the county. It is also the least altered of the schools originally built as two rooms, and it keeps much of its original interior wood sheathing. It was one of the few two-room schools used for white students through 1942.","narrative":"Built in 1876 on a tract bought by the Trustees of the North River Free Public Schools, this long, rectangular frame building with a gable roof served rural students west of Mt. Solon. It was moved from farther west to its present site near Mt. Zion United Brethren Church by about 1915, and the church gave the school its name. By 1880 it had 65 students, with an average daily attendance of 34. It remained in use for white students through 1942; in its last years only one classroom held grades one through four, and the other stored wood and water. After a 1948 sale it was remodeled into two apartments, changing the doors and windows, but the interior still has wood-sheathed walls, beaded wainscoting and a board partition. It is considered the oldest surviving two-room school in the county and the best example of its type, even though it is more altered than two other nominated two-room schools. Today it stands vacant, in fair condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as vacant, in fair condition. It was remodeled into two apartments after 1948 and has not been altered since.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.453745-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/6785/41678588/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/85000392.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000392/c1d01d42d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000392/c1d01d42d4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Zion_Schoolhouse_site.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Zion_Schoolhouse_site.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Zion_Schoolhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712932"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/mt-zion-schoolhouse-85000392/"}