{"nrhp_refnum":"88001439","name":"Common School No. 10","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Northside of Upper Cherrytown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Accord","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.87971454500007,"lon":-74.32120573999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room, one-story frame rural schoolhouse built around 1870 on Upper Cherrytown (Palentown) Road in the Accord vicinity, town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York. The carpenter Horace Dymond built it, and the one-third-acre lot also holds a privy, a shed and a hand-pumped well.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an exceptionally intact example of the modest frame schoolhouses built in rural New York after the Civil War. It reflects the growth of public education after tuition rate bills were abolished in 1867. It also follows the plan and features favored by mid-nineteenth-century educational reformers, such as a vestibule, multiple windows and a prominent belfry.","narrative":"Common School No. 10 is a one-room frame schoolhouse on Upper Cherrytown (Palentown) Road near Accord, in the town of Rochester, Ulster County. Carpenter Horace Dymond built it around 1870 on land donated by his brother, and it served the Accord school district until 1955, when the district merged into the Rondout Central School District. The building has a fieldstone foundation, clapboard siding, a gable roof and an open belfry that still holds its original bell and pulley system. Inside, a vestibule and cloakroom lead to a single classroom with a large chalkboard and beaded board walls. A shed, a privy and a hand pump survive on the lot. The school was listed because it is a well-preserved example of a once-common rural building type. It follows layouts promoted by educational reformers and recalls the expansion of free public schooling in New York after tuition charges ended in 1867. The town now uses it for public meetings and elections.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Horace Dymond (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the town of Rochester and used for local public meetings and as a polling place; it ceased to operate as a school in 1955.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.065208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001439.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322578","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_School_No._10","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5153466"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/common-school-no-10-88001439/"}