Little Red School House (Newport, New Hampshire)

Coordinates: 43°20′8″N 72°10′6″W / 43.33556°N 72.16833°W

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Little Red School House 1835 District No. 7
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	NH 10 at Pollard Mills Rd., Newport, New Hampshire
Coordinates	43°20′8″N 72°10′6″W / 43.33556°N 72.16833°W / 43.33556; -72.16833
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1835 (1835)
Built by	John Gilmore
NRHP reference No.	80000320^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 1, 1980

The Little Red School House, or the District No. 7 Schoolhouse, is a one-room schoolhouse on New Hampshire Route 10, south of downtown Newport, New Hampshire. Built in 1835, it is one of the state's few surviving pre-1850 district schoolhouses, and one of the least-altered of that group. It served the city as a school until 1891, and was acquired in 1951 by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is open as a museum during the summer months.^[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

Description and history

Newport's Little Red School House is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of downtown Newport, at the northwest corner of New Hampshire Route 10 and Pollard Mills Road. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure resting on a fieldstone foundation, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main façade, facing south, has the building's main entrance, while the sides and back each have two sash windows. The interior has plastered walls with a cove ceiling, and a painted wooden blackboard. The schoolhouse has its original wood stove, as well as original fittings for kerosene lamps. The benches are also original, but were moved in about 1885 to accommodate an additional wood stove. Exterior alterations are limited to the addition of folding shutters for the windows, and a flagpole near the entrance.^[2]

The school was built in 1835 to serve the town's seventh school district. Construction was done by a local carpenter for $140. Schools predating 1849 are rare in New Hampshire because the state in that year began promoting the construction of schools meeting standards specified in a publication by education pioneer Henry Barnard. This school remained in use until 1891, by which time Newport's rural population had declined enough to warrant adoption of a united school system.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NRHP nomination for Little Red School House 1835 District No. 7". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-07-06.

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DAR chapter page on schoolhouse

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Landmarks	Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Salmon P. Chase Birthplace
Districts	Central Business District Charlestown Main Street Historic District Lower Village District Monadnock Mills Newport Downtown Historic District North Charlestown Historic District Washington Common Historic District
Buildings	Acworth Silsby Library Backside Inn Blow-Me-Down Grange Charlestown Town Hall Claremont City Hall Claremont Warehouse No. 34 Farwell School Little Red School House 1835 District No. 7 Meriden Town Hall Mothers' and Daughters' Club House Plainfield Town Hall Protectworth Tavern Richards Free Library Richards, Dexter, & Sons Woolen Mill Sullivan County Courthouse Town Hall and Courthouse Unity Town Hall
Houses	Burford House Capt. John Gunnison House Cote House Covit House David Dexter House Durham House Garber House Giffin House Isaac Reed House Janicke House Knights-Morey House Lear House Louis St. Gaudens House and Studio Nettleton House Pike House Purnell House Scranton House Seavey House Stelljes House Welcome Acres William Rossiter House Williamson House Windswept Acres-Powers House
Places of worship	Acworth Congregational Church English Church First Baptist Church of Cornish First Universalist Chapel Langdon Meeting House Lempster Meetinghouse South Congregational Church Springfield Town Hall and Howard Memorial Methodist Church Trinity Church
Site	Hunter Archeological Site
Structures	Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge Cold River Bridge Corbin Covered Bridge Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge‡ Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge Kenyon Bridge Meriden Bridge Pier Bridge Prentiss Bridge Wright's Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state. Entries in italics have been removed from the register.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

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