{"nrhp_refnum":"85000395","name":"Verona School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 11","address_restricted":false,"city":"Verona","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.203859084000044,"lon":-79.00718010699995,"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 1911 three-room schoolhouse on Route 11 (US 11) at Verona, Augusta County, Virginia, built in a vernacular style by an unknown builder and later converted into a motel office and manager's residence.","why_significant":"It is the only surviving three-room school identified in Augusta County. It represents the early 20th-century three-room plan that became popular with school consolidation, mostly built between 1900 and 1920. Its domestic-looking design echoes local I-house tradition.","narrative":"Verona School is a three-room schoolhouse built in 1911 along Route 11 in Augusta County. Its plan follows a common early 20th-century pattern: a central entrance and hallway with a room on each side, like an I-house, and a third room in a rear ell. Surviving features include the transom-lighted entrance, central cross gable, wooden porch and large 6/6 sash windows with molded trim and bull's-eye corner blocks. The county school board bought the two-acre tract in July 1911, and the building cost $1,889, paid mostly from state funds. In the 1920s it taught grades one through five, and older pupils were bused to Mt. Sidney High School. The school closed by the late 1940s and was sold in 1950. Around 1956-57 it was moved back from the road and became the office and manager's residence for a motel, with long motel buildings added on each side. It is the only surviving three-room school identified in the county.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; in use as a motel office and manager's residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.737328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/6785/41678590/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/85000395.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000395/4700fc6640-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000395/4700fc6640-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verona_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verona_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713442"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/verona-school-85000395/"}