{"nrhp_refnum":"94000595","name":"Brandville School","other_names":["Luc-205-10"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1133 Grasser St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oregon","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.63027415900007,"lon":-83.48826515599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick school building and a small frame portable school at 1133 Grasser Street in Oregon, Lucas County, Ohio. The school was built in 1883-84 for a new township school district, and the portable building dates from 1918.","why_significant":"Under Criterion A, the buildings show how public school facilities changed in a township growing from rural to suburban. Under Criterion C, the school is a rare two-story, two-teacher masonry school in Oregon Township, and the portable is a surviving example of a standardized building type used to handle rising enrollment.","narrative":"Brandville School is a two-story brick schoolhouse at 1133 Grasser Street in Oregon, Ohio, built in 1883-84 after residents petitioned in 1882 for a new school district. It sits on a limestone foundation and has bracketed eaves, hood molds over the windows, and a low hip roof, all reflecting the Italianate style. A frame portable classroom from 1918 stands beside it. The school is the only two-story, two-teacher masonry school ever built in Oregon Township, and it appears to be the oldest little-altered nonresidential building remaining in the village. Alterations include a 1899 entrance and stairway reconfiguration and a rear addition built in 1986. The portable is the last of four once on the grounds and resembles a traditional one-room school. Together the buildings show how school design responded to growing enrollment until the school closed in 1926. The Oregon-Jerusalem Historical Society acquired the property in 1977 and uses it as a school museum and meeting hall.","period_of_significance":"1883 - 1926","architect_builder":"Unknown (masonry and carpentry contract awarded in 1882 to William Burge and J.N. Blumberg)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Closed as a school in 1926; purchased in 1977 by the Oregon-Jerusalem Historical Society and restored for use as a school museum and meeting facility.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.989941-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/94000595.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000595/19dd7609b0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000595/19dd7609b0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Maherite1977","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brandvilleschool.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Maherite1977</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Brandvilleschool.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989993","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138541384"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/brandville-school-94000595/"}