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The former schoolhouse is of Folk Victorian design (b) and features a steeply-pitched replacement standing-seam metal roof, decorative vergeboards at the gable end, wood clapboard siding, original 4/1 wood windows, a full-width hipped-roof front porch with wood supports and a jigsawn railing, a stone foundation, and a small shed-roof side addition that is not of historic-age. A wooden plaque at the gable end indicates “Kemper 1890.”
According to the 1868, 1877, 1895, 1914, and 1918 Grant County Plat Maps, a resource is identified in the location of the former schoolhouse (b) and noted as School House No. 7 (Gray 1868; Warner & Foote 1877; C.M. Foote and Co. 1895; Kenyon Company 1914; Geo. A. Ogle & Company 1918). The property was owned by P. Clayton according to the 1868 and 1877 Plat Maps; the schoolhouse (b) was identified as P. Clayton SH (1868) and Clayton School N. 07 (1877) (Gray 1868; Warner & Foote 1877). The schoolhouse (b) is depicted on the 1895 Plat Map as “School No. 7” (C.M. Foote and Co. 1895). L.H. Kemper owned the property in 1895 according to the 1895 Plat Map (C.M. Foote and Co. 1895). The schoolhouse (b) is visible in its current location according to 1955 aerial imagery and the 1900 Lancaster quadrangle map (NETR 2020; USGS 1900). The schoolhouse (b) is included as a school in the 1976 Dubuque quadrangle map (USGS 1976). No additional information was discovered about the community the schoolhouse (b) served. The dwelling (a) is on site by 1982 according to historic aerial imagery (NETR 2020).
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East side of County Road N, approximately 0.27 mile north of the Bee Lane intersection
242794
Located in Lancaster, Grant County