Under One Roof
About this book
The only known compilation of more than 300 of America's historic schoolhouses open to the public. The book is divided into four geographic sections, and focuses on more than 80 of the schoolhouses - former one-room schools that have been restored - and today contain typical historic schoolhouse furnishings: children's desks, teacher's desk, pot-bellied stove, and other artifacts of the past. The historical backgrounds of these schools are related in one- or two-page stories, including when the schools were built, how long they served as educational facilities, what became of them after school districts began to consolidate, and when and by whom they were renovated and restored. Many also contain a photograph of the schoolhouse.

The remaining schools are documented at the end of each section. These buildings may contain schoolhouse furnishings, may serve as local history museums, or may be open to the public in other capacities. They may contain more than one room or even more than one floor, but all at one time early in our country's history served their communities as schoolhouses.

Included in Under One Roof are entries from each of the 50 states, including a two-page history of the Southermost School, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, built in 1725 and perhaps our nation's oldest schoolhouse; and Arizona's oldest standing schoolhouse, the Strawberry Schoolhouse in Strawberry.

Grace S. Schoerner, managing editor of this compilation, is a former columnist with The Plainfield Sun, A Copley Newspaper, in Plainfield, IL. She currently resides in northern Arizona. Michael F. Anderson, Ph.D., is a noted historian and author, who has lived in northern Arizona for 20 years. He is the author of Living at the Edge: Explorers, Exploiters and Settlers of the Grand Canyon Region, and A Place in the Land: the Settlement of Pine, Arizona.

Under One Roof is made possible in part by grants from the Arizona Humanities Council, Phoenix, AZ. The findings therein do not necessarily represent the view of AHC or National Endowment for the Humanities. The book is available at the Strawberry Schoolhouse, Strawberry, AZ, at other participating locations, or directly from the publisher. For additional information contact the managing editor at P.O. Box 1162, Pine, AZ 85544; or the publisher at PSAHS, Schoolhouse Directory, P.O. Box 564, Pine, AZ 85544, by e-mail at [email protected], or by phone at 928-476-3547.