Hornby School
Also known as: Shadduck School
Why it's listed
A one-room wood-frame schoolhouse on Station Road in Greenfield Township, Erie County, built in 1875 by contractor Fred Hart to replace an older log school on the Shadduck family land. The 22-by-36-foot building has a gable roof of cedar shakes, a belfry added in 1900 that holds a bell, and an interior with tongue-and-groove floors, wainscoting and black slate chalkboards. It served the township's rural children until the district's one-room system ended in 1956, when it was auctioned and then sat vacant until the Hornby School Restoration Society was formed in 1973. The nomination regards it as the least altered one-room school in Greenfield Township and Erie County, since the other schools of its era were converted to other uses or destroyed. Its value lies in preserving the original building type and the record of a township school system that served children from age six to eighteen.
Significance in brief: The nomination argues the school is significant under Criterion A for its role in rural education in Greenfield Township from the mid-1800s through its 1956 closing, and under Criterion C as an excellent example of late nineteenth-century wood vernacular schoolhouse design. It is described as the only one of the township's six surviving one-room schools that remains unaltered and has never been used for another purpose.
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 08000783, listed August 13, 2008. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v1.1-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | 10,000 Station Rd., Greenfield |
|---|---|
| County | Erie County |
| Listed | August 13, 2008 |
| Reference number | 08000783 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | 1875-1956 |
| Architect / builder | Fred Hart (builder) |
| Architectural style | No Style |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture, Education |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Restored by the Hornby School Restoration Society after a period of vacancy; now operates as a museum with display and storage areas. |
| Acreage | 1.1 |
| Coordinates | 42.11632, -79.86300 (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 08000783.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q15225171
- This listing as JSON
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