{"nrhp_refnum":"98001241","name":"Weston Schoolhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"463 Cty Rte 23","address_restricted":false,"city":"Weston","county":"Schuyler County","state":"NY","lat":42.42190834300004,"lon":-77.07689023299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-10-08","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 schoolhouse built around 1870 on a 0.4-acre lot at 463 County Route 23 in the hamlet of Weston, town of Tyrone, Schuyler County, New York.","why_significant":"It is nominated as a substantially intact, representative example of a late nineteenth century one-room schoolhouse in Schuyler County. Its plain vernacular design is typical of rural schools across upstate New York and the southern Finger Lakes. It illustrates the practice of teaching all grades in a single room before centralized school systems arrived.","narrative":"Built around 1870, this one-room frame schoolhouse sits at the corner of County Route 23 and Bailey Hill Road in the hamlet of Weston, in the town of Tyrone. It is a rectangular, gable-roofed building with clapboard siding on a stone foundation. A recessed entrance porch with miter-arched trim is flanked by small wings that held gender-segregated coat rooms and toilets. The large open classroom survives, though drywall and a dropped ceiling now cover the original finishes. The school served as District #9 and taught grades one through eight until about 1940, when a centralized system replaced the town's many small schoolhouses. It is the only one of those buildings still owned by the town and one of only two that survive intact. Its plain design reflects rural schools of the mid- to late 1800s in the southern Finger Lakes region. Local churches now lease it for a thrift store, and it remains a prominent landmark.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late nineteenth century: Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently leased by a coalition of local churches and housing a thrift store; owned by the town.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.457673-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98001241.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001241/9f3a8c7a14-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001241/9f3a8c7a14-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weston_Schoolhouse,_Weston,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:Weston_Schoolhouse,_Weston,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321815","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Schoolhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7989477"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schuyler-county/weston-schoolhouse-98001241/"}