Property Record
N6273 COUNTY HIGHWAY Q
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | AZTALAN SCHOOL |
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| Reference Number: | 6631 |
| Location (Address): | N6273 COUNTY HIGHWAY Q |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Aztalan |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 7 |
| Range: | 14 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 17 |
| Quarter Section: | SE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NW |
| Year Built: | 1918 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 19742012 |
| Historic Use: | elementary, middle, jr.high, or high |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The first school in the Town of Aztalan began in 1838, taught by Rev. Jared F. Ostrander. It is believed to be the first school in Jefferson County. Funds raised during the 1840s to establish a never-realized labor school at the Aztalan settlement were utilized to construct the first schoolhouse in the township. The non-extant, wood-frame building served the town for both educational and religious purposes until 1850, when a 29-foot by 36-foot brick schoolhouse was constructed at the cost of $300 to serve the Town of Aztalan School District No. 1. This brick school was destroyed by fire in 1918. Classes resumed shortly thereafter in the Old Baptist Church, just across the street from the schoolhouse. A new brick schoolhouse was completed at the site of the former school, at N6273 County Highway Q, in the fall of 1918. By the mid-twentieth century school consolidation, Aztalan School was one of five remaining schools serving the Town of Aztalan . To this day, the Town of Aztalan is served by schools located in City of Lake Mills, City of Jefferson, and the Village of Johnson Creek. |
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| Bibliographic References: | One Room Schools of Jefferson County. Johnson Creek: Johnson Creek Historical Society, 2006. Pages 4 and 6. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |