{"nrhp_refnum":"97001253","name":"Fissel's School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Fissel's Church Rd, and Country Club Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shrewsbury Township","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.76805397900006,"lon":-76.73315101499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story brick one-room schoolhouse in Shrewsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, near Glen Rock, facing southeast onto Fissel's Church Road. It was built in 1896 and is now on the campus of Susquehannock High School.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a significant surviving example of a late nineteenth-century one-room school in southern York County that documents the history of education in the county. It is the only one of the surviving township schools that has not been altered, and it reflects the standard one-room school design of the period.","narrative":"Fissel's School is a one-and-a-half story brick one-room schoolhouse built in 1896 in Shrewsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, facing southeast onto Fissel's Church Road. It rests on a fieldstone foundation and has common-bond brick walls, a projecting one-story entrance portico with a pent roof, and fishscale shingles and carved bargeboards in its gables, reflecting Queen Anne influence. A belfry rises above the entrance, and the bell is believed to be original. Inside, the schoolroom retains its original pine floor, four-panel doors, vertical board wainscot, two twelve-foot blackboards, and a coal-burning stove. The school replaced an earlier building on the same site that dated to the late 1830s. It is one of six surviving late nineteenth-century one-room schools in the township and the only one that has not been altered for residential use. It operated until about 1946 and has since been run as a museum of local education history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Maintained and operated as a museum; described as in excellent condition with no major alteration since construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.893895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97001253.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001253/e044f4970f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001253/e044f4970f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Purple pirouette","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fissel%27s_School_York_Co._PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Purple pirouette</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:Fissel%27s_School_York_Co._PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998163","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissel%27s_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5455211"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/fissels-school-97001253/"}