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THE
TEXAS SCHOOLHOUSE (Prior to 1950)In
this series we showcase some of the most modest of Texas buildings. Schools had
one purpose and one purpose only. They didn't enjoy the amenities or details of
hotels, public buildings, depots or courthouses. In some cases during the winters
of the 1930s - each child came to school with a piece of firewood for the stove.
Many schools were dismantled and recycled into barns and outbuildings
after the school consolidations of the late 40s and early 50s. Only a fraction
are still standing today. Some today serve as community buildings or even residences.
Others are simply collapsing under their own weight or being swallowed by vegetation. |
TEXAS
SCHOOLHOUSES & ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES |
FEATURE
ARTICLES
Restoring
Trinity's Old Red - The red-brickTrinity schoolhouse, built in 1911-13
TEXAS SCHOOLHOUSES Albert
- Williams Creek School
11-15-07Aleman,
former school Allamoore
School Alligator
School House, TexasAlpine
High SchoolAmbrose
Old SchoolhouseAlvord
Public SchoolAndrewsAransas
Pass old school buildingBangs
High SchoolBarstow
High stadium scoreboard Barstow
SchoolBartlett
School FeatureBaylor
University, IndependenceBayside
SchoolBeaukiss
School Feature
Ben
Ficklin School, former Tom Green County CourthouseBend
School (no photos)Benoit
old schoolhouseBerclair
SchoolBig
Spring Public SchoolBledsoe
School
10-11-08Bluffton
SchoolhouseBluntzer
SchoolBoling
High School 12-14-08Bonnie
Parker's Alma Mater 4-12-07
Borger
High School, circa 1930sBremond
SchoolBrenham
High SchoolBriggs
SchoolBronco
Highway School 8-19-07
(no photo)Brookesmith
School old and new gymBrownwood
- Rufus F. Hardin School Feature
Bula
Schoolhouse RuinsBulahBulcher,
former Center High School #64Bunker
Hill SchoolCalf
Creek School FeatureCarbon
Old Schoolhouse & former high school 12-13-07Carlton
schoolCartwright
8-27-07Castell
old schoolhouseCenter
High School - School Days Feature
A Ghost Story by James L. Choron
Center
Point SchoolChapman
RanchChappell
Hill former school, now a museum Charlie
4-5-07 Cheapside
Cherry
Spring - Old Cherry Spring SchoolChico
former schoolhouse - Siddon-Barnes Log Cabin 1870s
Cistern
School c. 1920Clarendon
High School 1927 - Athletes and Pep SquadClairette
Schoolhouse
2-10-08Clarkson
old schoolhouseColdwater
SchoolhouseCollinsville
SchoolCommerce
High School - Class of 1927Cookville
Public School, early 1900sCottonwood
old schoolhouseCotulla
High School c. 1928 Crabapple
School c. 1878 Crane
High SchoolCranfills
Gap c. 1939 Crawford
Middle School Crews
Schoolhouse & GymCrockett
- Mary Allen CollegeDale
6-30-07 Dayton
Old SchoolhouseDel
Rio High SchoolDenison
High School Feature
10-12-07 Desdemona
SchoolDexter
- Auditorium interior 2-21-08D'Hanis
- St. Anthony's School
12-14-07Donna
SchoolDoole
Elementary School 5th and 6th grade class 1946 - 1947
9-5-07Dozier
Draw
School House Feature (no photo)Dripping
Springs AcademyDrydenDulin
6-4-07 Dundee
SchoolDuffau
School Eagle
Lake High School BandEagle
Pass
Edinburg High SchoolElgin
Public School, early 1900sEliasville
De Long Ward SchoolElm
Grove School sign Eola
School FeatureEulogy
School 3-29-07 Eureka
School in Spunky Flat FeatureEvant
School Falfurrias
High School class of 1953
Fly
Gap schoolhouseFort
McKavett Schoolhouse FeatureFredericksburg's
"Vereins Kirche"Friendship
SchoolGallatin
Old Schoolhouse 1916Gay
Hill one room schoolhouse Glen
Rose High School Tiger Stadium sign Goliad
High School 11-7-08Granger
High SchoolGrapetown
Schoolhouse Feature
Hext
6-15-07HollandHouston
- Charles Elliot ElementaryHovey
Schoolhouse FeatureIllinois
BendIndian
Creek School, Mills CountyIndian
Gap SchoolsIngleside
Schools marker
6-18-07Iowa
Park High SchoolItaly
High SchoolJacksboro
High SchoolJacksonville
- Frederick Douglass SchoolJacksonville
Colleges
Jarrell School, 1928 and Class PhotosJeddo
old SchoolhouseJohnson
City Public SchoolJonesboro
School Juno
SchoolhouseJusticeburg
SchoolhouseKeene
School
Kendalia
School c.1930Kent
School ruin
Kermit
Elementary School Kerrick
School
Feature
7-15-07 Kimball
SchoolKingsville
- Henrietta King High SchoolKirtley
6-30-07
Knobbs
Springs old schoolhouseKoerth
6-13-07Kountze
High SchoolLa
JoyaLagarto
- Former SchoolLedbetter
6-12-08Lelia
LakeLeming
Elementary 6-30-07 Lesley
SchoolhouseLipan
High SchoolLipscomb
SchoolLolitaLone
Grove old schoolhouseLowake
school (now community center)Lubbock
- Senior High SchoolLubbock
- Texas Tech CollegeLyford
School, 1911Mackay
Class of 1927 Manda
old schoolhouseMarfa
High School Marshall
High SchoolMarshall
CollegesMasterson
- Bivins SchoolMaverick
SchoolhouseMcAllen
High School 3-17-08McCaulley
SchoolMcFaddin
SchoolMesquite
1905 Schoolhouse Middle
Water school ruinsMiles
High SchoolMillersview
SchoolMinerva
SchoolhouseMoline
School SiteMonaville
8-14-08
Moran
School 5-1-07Morgan
- Union Hill School
9-29-07Morgan
Mill High SchoolMorris
Ranch 1893 schoolhouseMosheim
Mozell
High School 10-11-07Moulton
1-10-07Muenster
- Sacred Heart School
9-14-07Mullin
School Mykawa
SchoolNash
Public School and MarkerNew
London School Explosion FeatureNew
London - West Rusk High School FeatureNew
WehdemNixon-Smiley
High SchoolNoodle
- Cross Road School Oakalla
- 1920 former schoolhouseOatmeal
- Stone schoolhouse 5-24-07Odell
School 6-1-07Odessa
High SchoolO'Donnell
High SchoolOklahoma
Lane SchoolhouseOld
Glory High School Overton
School Ozona
High SchoolPalestine
SchoolPandale
SchoolhousePanna
Maria - children's water fountain Pawnee
- School Bell
12-12-07Peacock
ReunionsPear
ValleyPeoria
6-19-08Perico
abandoned schoolPettit
High School 10-11-08Pettus
High School
10-17-08Pharr
School, 1911
Pharr-San
Juan-Alamo School, 1915Pickens
old schoolPlacid
School 1-22-08Plains
High SchoolPost
High SchoolPottsville
School Prairie
Mountain School 1-15-08Premont
High School Cheerleaders 1953Priddy
School Purves
old school with windmill Pyron
SchoolRicardo
school mascotRice
Ranch Community School Children, c1912Richardson
- Wheeler School 1-18-08
Ridge
old schoolRio
Grande City School, BurnedRio
Hondo 4-7-08Rock
Island School PicnicRock
Island Class of 1925RosserRowena
SchoolsRusk
High SchoolSalado
- Amity School circa 1906 8-14-07San
Diego Schoolhouses 10-5-07San
Jacinto SchoolSanderson
High SchoolSandia
12-2-08 Santa
Anna High SchoolSanto
High School, old and newSchool
Hill old schoolhouseScranton
Academy
1-31-08Shady
Grove SchoolSisterdale
old stone schoolhouseSlocum
School Smithville
School Snyder
High School, 1900sSonora
High SchoolSpanish
Fort School Speaks
former schoolhouseStar
School Starr
county unidentified schoolSterling
City ISDStonewall
8-3-08 Strawn
- Robinson Schoolhouse FeatureSwearingen
School, 1928Tahoka
High SchoolTankersley
School ( no photo)Teague
High SchoolTehuacana
SchoolTennessee
Colony Community Center/SchoolThornton
School architectural detailsTokio
School and historicla marker
TopseyToyah
Elementary & High School, 1912Trickham
School Trinity
schoolhouse (All Things Historical)Trio
School - Haunted FeatureTucker
- Green Bay High School
8-11-07Tuleta
Agriculture High School 11-3-07 Tuleta's
burned "Grade School"Tulia
Public School, 1908Turkey
High SchoolUnion
Grove High School FeatureUvalde
High School Valera
School, closedValley
View 10-9-08Van
AlstyneVattmannVega
Public SchoolVelehradVigo
Park Water
Valley Wayside
School Waxahachie
6-25-08 Waxahachie
- Park Public School Weimar
Public School, early 1900s Weldon
School Wharton
County school bus c.1928 White
Deer Grade School Whiteflat
School Whiteland
School 12-7-07
Whitewright
Winedale
Schoolhouse Wingate
Winnsboro
9-1-08 Yancey
6-30-07
The Zephyr Public School Building The
Zimmersheidt School - "The Last One Room Schoolhouse In Texas" Feature
Colleges and Universities
Jarvis
Christian College by Archie P. McDonald 8-20-07
Obtaining a collegiate education presented a problem for African Americans in
Texas prior to court-ordered racial integration which began in the 1950s... In
Texas, especially East Texas, Wiley College in Marshall and Jarvis Christian College
in Hawkins were about the only options for undergraduate instruction...
East
Texas Bapist University by Archie P. McDonald
6-18-07
East Texas
Baptist College, now University, began and remains in Marshall, Texas...
Another
College Among the Pines by Archie P. McDonald
We who give "All
Hail to SFA" think of our University by one of its earlier nicknames, "The College
Among The Pines." That also described another excellent institution headquartered
in Carthage, Texas, named Panola College after its host county. Stephen
F. Austin State University by Archie P. McDonald Add-Ran
College, now TCU, Thorp Spring
Dana
X. Bible and the Twelfth Man by Archie P. McDonald
A story about
the life and contributions to Texas football by Dana Xenophon Bible Salado
College by Clay Coppedge Tehuacana
- Westminster College Texas
A & M University, a Brief History
Education
Ann
Whitney
2-10-08
Pioneer Schoolteacher An
Influential Visit by Robert G. Cowser
"As a junior, I found
myself on the teacher-certification track, preparing to observe classes at the
only high school in Commerce."
Rochester
Teacher by Mike Cox
School teaching has never been the best paying
avocation, but the terms of employment have definitely improved over the last
century... Kinkaid
School by Archie P. McDonald
Kinkaid School in Houston. A.M.Aikin,
Jr. by Archie P. McDonald
"In these days of evaluating our
schools—exemplary to acceptable to whatever—and multiple special legislative sessions
devoted to figuring out how to spend more money on schools while taking in less
revenue, Texans might want to remember A.M. Aikin Jr., who helped drag education
and Texas into modern times..."Austin
Grade School by Mike Cox
Austin being the capital of Texas, all
the laws dealing with major aspects of public education are made there. But the
city has another distinction when it comes to teaching children: It had the first
school in the state built entirely with public funds.Ela
Hockaday More Than a School Omarm by Archie P. McDonald
Founder
of the Miss Hockaday School for Girls in DallasThe
Gilmer-Aikin Law by Archie P. McDonald, PhD
The landmark law passed
by the Texas legislature that brought the state's educational system at least
and at last into the twentieth century.Remembering
Integration by Bob Bowman (From "All Things Historical")
Opinion/HumorCollege
Application by Peary Perry 10-8-08
"My
wife and I were sitting on a swing on the upstairs porch drinking coffee as we
went over what you are about to read .... I have to tell you both of our sides
hurt from laughing so hard .... I wish I could take credit for having written
this ... but, I can't...I do hope you find this as funny as we did ..." Dumbing
Down of America by Peary Perry 7-3-08
"At this time we have approximately 30 million illiterate citizens in this
country. This is roughly 10% of our total population. You know a large number
of them passed through our school system. My question is, how did they graduate
if they could not read or write?" Global
Decline in Math and Science by Peary Perry
Crimes
Murder
at a school by Bob Bowman 10-13-08
During
the evening of March 12, 1926, as students and parents watched a play at Center
Point school in Trinity County...
School DaysRemembering
school days by
Bob Bowman 11-19-07
Few things stir the nostalgia of our lives as the days we spent in our
schools decades ago. Competing
with Elvis in the Classroom by Robert Cowser
11-15-07
Elvis Presley and a band called the
Blue Notes performed on the stage of the Humble Oil Company’s recreation building
in Hawkins one evening in January, 1955...Cujo
by George Lester
I suppose there was one in every class, in every
school, everywhere in the country. A class hero. We had one in our class at Eureka
School.School
Days
J.T. Brown as told to Louise George
Class of 31 in Dumas
The
Reluctant Thespian by George Lester
"The first grade at Lorena
Grade School was putting on a play. The students had been selected to play various
nursery rhyme characters. There was “Little Bo Peep”, “Goldie Locks”, “Little
Jack Horner” and many more. ..."
On
the Way to School (Oral History) by Louise GeorgeMules
to School by George LesterThe
Smorgasbord by George Lester
A school lunch story
| "It
seemed, as I recall it, a lonely little house of scholarship, with its playground
worn so bare, that even the months of sun and idleness failed to bring forth any
grass. But that humble little school had a dignity of a fixed and far off purpose.
It was the nest of the West's greatness. It was the outpost of civilization. It
was the advance guard of the pioneer, driving the wilderness farther into the
west. It was life preparing wistfully for the future. The school was poorly equipped,
indeed, since it boasted only a few long, crude benches, with no desks but the
knees upon which to write. The teacher was afflicted with the tobacco habit, which
the ten small pupils accepted along with other disadvantages".
James
Rooney remembers the White House School in Fort Stockton as it was in 1879. From
the introduction to Journey From Ignorant Ridge, Texas Congress of Parents and
Teachers, 1976 |
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with its playground worn so bare, that even the months of sun and idleness failed
to bring forth any grass." - James Rooney
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