Monroe School

Monroe School is a two-story limestone school built in 1894 at 328 E. Monroe Street in Sandusky, Ohio, with George Feick listed as builder. Designed in the Romanesque style, it has rock-faced ashlar walls, a hip roof and an irregular plan. An elaborate gable rises over the recessed front door, with an arch supported by foliated pilasters dividing louvers, triple stone-trimmed windows and a carved stone finial. Darker stone bands and string courses divide the floors, and the eaves drop above a dark band. A simpler gable marks the rear door. The building is valued for its fine late 19th century architecture and as one of several large limestone schools built in Sandusky between the mid-19th century and the 1920s. It first taught eight grades, reduced to six when a junior high school opened in the 1920s. It sits on a shaded lot of about one acre across from a city park, with a playground at the rear, and remains in use as a school.