1910 - Elmira School - Elmira, ID
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N 48° 28.805 W 116° 27.800
11U E 539660 N 5369800
We spied this little school while travelling between Bonners Ferry and Sandpoint on Highway 95.
Waymark Code: WMN9KA
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 01/25/2015
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The school stands on the west side of Highway 95 about 3 miles south of McArthur Lake. The old wooden sign over the front porch reads Dist. No. 16 1910. The "16" covers a previous number, indicating a number change in the school district during the school's lifetime.
The building itself was built of a mixture of smooth and rusticated concrete blocks on a concrete foundation. The side walls are each supported by four concrete buttresses. Atop the walls is a steel clad gable roof with wooden shiplap sided gable ends. On the roof's peak at the front is a small bell tower with lattice work vents. The bell tower is not in very good shape any more.
Inside there is a cloakroom/hall at the front which leads left and right to the entrances to the two small school rooms. If it was actually used as a two room school, each room would have been pretty small.
The little town of Elmira stood across the highway in the early 1900s, a small mill and railroad town. The first school was a hand hewn log school, built sometime around 1900.
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