Property Record
N1297 STATE HIGHWAY 67
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Pershing School |
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| Other Name: | Pershing School |
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| Reference Number: | 116137 |
| Location (Address): | N1297 STATE HIGHWAY 67 |
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| County: | Fond du Lac |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Ashford |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 13 |
| Range: | 18 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 20 |
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| Year Built: | 1861 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 19992012 |
| Historic Use: | school-one to six room |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Stucco |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. 2014- Appearance unchanged. 2012- The Pershing School is a one-room schoolhouse is a one-story, front-gable, building with a rectangular plan located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Pleasant Hill Drive and STH 67. The walls are built of mortared fieldstone and coated in a thin coat of stucco, which is scored in imitation of coursed ashlar. The moderately-pitched asphalt roof features a small semicircular opening in the gable end and a simple cornice. The main entrance, centered on the front (north) facade, has a plain wooden surround. The door has been covered with wood planking . A small, gable-roof vestibule is centered on the rear (south) elevation, flanked by two-over-two, double-hung sash windows. The side (east and west) elevations each feature two regularly spaced, two-over-two wooden double-hung sash windows, spaced regularly. A small brick interior chimney pierces the ridgeline of the roof near the rear. A circular metal corn bin is located at the rear of the property. The schoolhouse is currently private property and access to the interior was not possible at the time of the survey. Known as the Pershing School, this property served as the District 1 schoolhouse in the town of Ashford; the plot of land on which it sits was purchased by the town of Ashford in 1851, the first parcel acquired for the construction of a public school. REC 11/99 |
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| Bibliographic References: | Roderick Reese Papers R-016, Collection of the Campbellsport Historical Society, Campbellsport, Wis. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |