{"nrhp_refnum":"88001451","name":"District School No. 9","other_names":["Old Stone Schoolhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 17A","address_restricted":false,"city":"Goshen","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.37645925500004,"lon":-74.34930448599994,"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 small one-story vernacular stone one-room schoolhouse on Route 17A south of Goshen, Orange County, New York, also called the Borden School or Old Stone Schoolhouse. Its construction date is uncertain, but the form suggests roughly 1820-1850.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare, intact example of an early nineteenth century one-room rural school built in the local vernacular stone tradition. It keeps its original plan, brick door and window framing, and nineteenth-century furnishings. It also reflects local rural education, serving as a school until 1938.","narrative":"District School No. 9 is a small, one-story stone schoolhouse on Route 17A south of Goshen, in Orange County, New York. Measuring about 22 by 32 feet, it is built of locally quarried stone, with coursed ashlar on three sides and rubble on the south end, which was extended by five feet to hold bathrooms. Brick frames the door and windows, and nine-over-six sash windows predominate. Inside are a single classroom, a storage room and two washrooms, still furnished with nineteenth-century desks, blackboards and a cast-iron stove. The exact construction date is unknown, though comparison with similar schools suggests 1820 to 1850. It served nearby farming communities, including workers tied to a milk company, until local taxpayers voted to close it in 1938. A DAR chapter bought it in 1939 and uses it as a museum and headquarters. Its rural setting and few alterations make it a rare surviving stone country school in the county.","period_of_significance":"Circa 1820-1938","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"No Style (vernacular rural schoolhouse)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored and preserved by the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter that bought it in 1939; it serves as a museum and chapter headquarters.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.034354-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001451/100fc0387c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001451/100fc0387c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Original uploader was Daniel Case at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goshen_School_-9.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Original uploader was Daniel Case at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Goshen_School_-9.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320626","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_School_No._9","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5283377"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/district-school-no-9-88001451/"}