Stony Point District School No. 4
Also known as: Pyngyp School
Why it's listed
Built around 1915 on Central Drive in Stony Point, Rockland County, the Pyngyp School was the one-room schoolhouse for District No. 4. It is a modest wood-frame building with a steeply pitched gable roof, clapboard siding, a small open belfry, and a brick foundation. Two entrance vestibules open onto a single classroom with pine floors, a raised teacher's platform, and a band of windows on one side that reflects newer school design standards of the period. A small kitchen and bathroom addition was added in the 1970s. The school replaced a nineteenth-century building nearby, which was later used as a woodshed and then razed. Pupils were taught by a single teacher until 1945, when the area's schools were centralized. The building afterward housed a game and conservation club and later became a community meeting place and polling station. It is regarded as a late, little-altered example of the rural one-room school type, with only vague Gothic character.
Significance in brief: It is a late example of the traditional one-room rural schoolhouse type, built on long-standing models with only limited Gothic-inspired detail. It served Stony Point's District No. 4 students from c. 1915 until local schools were centralized in 1945. It is nominated at the local level under Criterion A for education and Criterion C for architecture.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 11001005, listed January 4, 2012. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | Central Dr. at Cedar Flats Rd., Stony Point |
|---|---|
| County | Rockland County |
| Listed | January 4, 2012 |
| Reference number | 11001005 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | c. 1915- c. 1945 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian: Gothic |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture, Education |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Since the school closed in 1945 it has served briefly as a game and conservation club home, then as a community meeting place and polling station. |
| Acreage | 0.5 |
| Coordinates | 41.23993, -74.02117 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
For a publicly owned building or structure, listing mainly matters when federal funds, permits or licences are involved: projects then go through Section 106 review so effects on the property are considered. Listing also strengthens applications for preservation grants and, for leased income-producing uses, can enable the federal rehabilitation tax credit.
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Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 11001005.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q23092102
- This listing as JSON
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