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Property Features
This two-story brick school building has details that suggest the Parie style. The building has a low-pitched hiped roof and a wide overhanging eaves. The two-story projecting entry pravilion has a stone plaque carved with "Sunnyside School" and another plaque with "District 9" and a vertical plaque with "1928" inscribed. There are two belt courses that run across the front facade and the same brick is used to decorate the corners of the building. The bricks also surrounda the arched entrance that consists of two wood and glass doors topped by a large fanlight. Windows are double-hung sashes with an upper pane of six lights. On the side of the facade they are paired and topped with a transom. A large modern addition extendes from the rear of the building, but because of its placement, it detracts little form the old school.
ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE
Mequon has a fine collection of late nineteeth and early twentieth century small school building. This one has features that suggest the popupar Prairie style, although in this building it is used rather late--1928. Even though it is being used for a new purpose, the has retained a high level of preservation and integrity.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
This school building was constructed in 1928 for one of Mequon's numerous school districts. Mequon was divided in to districts for the purpose of schooling rural children of the township. These rural schools were discontinued during the 1960s and school consolidation made them obsolete.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Mequon has a number of small schools still extant that represent the type of rural educational facilities common in the area prior to school consolidation in the 1960s.
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