Harper School (Harper, Missouri)

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Harper School
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Location jct. of MO 82 and MO U, Harper, Missouri
Coordinates 38°3′47″N93°31′4″W / 38.06306°N 93.51778°W / 38.06306; -93.51778 Coordinates: 38°3′47″N93°31′4″W / 38.06306°N 93.51778°W / 38.06306; -93.51778
Area less than one acre
Built c. 1875 (1875)
Architectural style one-room schoolhouse
NRHP reference # 07000751 [1]
Added to NRHP July 24, 2007

Harper School, also known as Harper Community Building, is a historic one-room school located at Harper, St. Clair County, Missouri. It was built about 1875, and is a one-story, one-room frame schoolhouse with twin entrances. It measures 20 feet wide by 32 feet long and has a gable roof with shed roof porch. Also on the property is a contributing frame privy (1935). The school closed in 1952 and houses a community centre. [2] :5

One-room school small rural school in which students of different ages are mixed in a single classroom

One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. While in many areas one-room schools are no longer used, it is not uncommon for them to remain in developing nations and rural or remote areas. Examples include remote parts of the American West, the Falklands, and the Shetland Islands.

Harper is an unincorporated community in St. Clair County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

St. Clair County, Missouri County in the United States

St. Clair County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,805. Its county seat is Osceola. The county was organized in 1841 and named after General Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair was also the 9th president of the United States in Congress Assembled. Under his presidency, the Northwest Ordinance and United States Constitution were passed.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Linda Harper and Roger Maserang (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Harper School" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 8 photographs from 2007)