The Witherbee School

 school, historical building

The schoolhouse is a one-story, end-gabled, wood balloon-frame structure of modest Queen Anne style, set upon a foundation of rubble-stone and mortar. The exterior is of decoratively patterned and plain wood shingles. A two-story, square bell tower is on the left, complete with its original bell, and a small brick chimney is to the right. It has an arched, recessed central entry with two side-entry doors, a door for boys on the right and a door for girls on the left. Both enter into small vestibules which originally were equipped with benches and coat hooks, later converted to indoor toilet spaces (replacing two outhouses which stood at a discreet distance from the building and from the well which provided fresh drinking water). A door from each vestibule opens to the classroom (24' x 31'), a room which is high-ceilinged, well-lighted and basically plain and unadorned. Original wainscoting of plain, matched and grooved vertical boarding provides a pleasing trim.
This circa 1892 one-room schoolhouse was fully restored into an authentic vintage 1900 classroom and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.