Lincoln School

Built in 1917 on a flat 1.5-acre site along Chimney Rock Road, this one-room wood-frame schoolhouse served the rural Adelaida area northeast of Paso Robles. It has redwood tongue-and-groove siding over Douglas fir framing, a concrete foundation, a covered north veranda, and a library at one end. Cedar roof shingles remain beneath later asphalt roofing. A barn/shed, outhouses, and an old well and pumpjack share the grounds. The school taught grades 1-8 until 1964, with eleven teachers between 1917 and 1950 and an average enrollment of 9.5 students. Local families repaired and maintained it. By the mid-1920s it also served as the community's meeting place for farm center gatherings, 4-H and other clubs, speakers, elections, and social events, a role that continues today. Changes included a teacher's living area in the 1920s, electricity and bathrooms in 1948, and fire-exit and window updates after enrollment declined. It was listed for its role in education and local social history.