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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 AREA FORM NO. 62 Town Address Rehoboth 144 Hornbine Road Historic Name Hornbine Schoo1 PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5" , black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number SKETCH MAP Show property's to nearest cros geographical fe all buildings k property and ne Indicate north. Hornbine Chley BAKER 61 2215 STRE Cem Use: Present museum Original schoo1 DESCRIPTION: Date 1862 Source_ 325th Anniversary of Rehoboth; Town Records Style_ Greek Revival Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric_ clapboard Outbuildings none N Major alterations (with dates)_ modified as residence ca. 1940; restored 1968 UTM: 19317060/4629500 Recorded by Leslie C. Abernathy, III Organization Rehoboth Historical Commission Date April 1976 Moved no Date Approx.
acreage less than one acre Setting_ 50 feet from Hornbine Road at intersection of Baker (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) The Hornbine School is an archetypical example of a 19th century eight grade one- room schoolhouse. It is a modest one-story wood frame clapboard building with entrance in the three-bay gable end facing the street and a stove chimney at the opposite end. This schoolhouse was built at its present location in 1862 in the Hornbine section of southeastern Rehoboth and stands as the best preserved example of a mid 19th century schoolhouse in the town.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development ofthe community.) One of the fifteen one-room district schools in town during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Hornbine School was known as District #10 School until districts were abolished in 1883. Beginning in the 1920s, the district schools began to close as st'dents consolidated in larger facilities. The Hornbine School, dis- countinued in 1937, was the last to close. During the 1930s, Hornbine had a pupil exchange arrangement with Swansea, Hornbine taking lower grades, and Swansea high schoo1 pupils. The Hornbine Schoo1 was (subsequently) sold, modified for use as a residence, then later deteriorated from disuse.
In 1968, when Rehoboth celebrated its 325th Anniversary, the Hornbine School Association was organized to purchase the school, restore it and turn it over to the town as a museum. Formal preservation of the one-room school heritage of Rehoboth reflects the sentiments of a town which had, from first settlement, committed itself to maintaining universal public education. In addition to its role as a school, its location has significance. The Hornbine Schoo1 and the earlier Hornbine Baptish Church (#63) face each other across Hornbine Road at a small curving intersection which has changed little since about 1900. There is an intimacy of scale and an interplay between the two buildings which deserves to be preserved. (Continued) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Snape, Sue Ellen, ed. In Old Rehoboth, 1979, pp.53, 62-64. Trim, et al.
Rehoboth's 325th Anniversary, 1968, PP.52-58. 10M - 7/82 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Rehoboth Property Name : Hornbine School Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Historical Significance (Continued) The Hornbine School possesses integrity of location, design, materials, work- manship, setting, feeling ans association and meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places individually. Form No: 62 Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10.900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 3 4 t Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name Rehoboth Multiple Resource Area State Massachusetts Nomination/Type of Review 21. Goff Farm Substantive Review Entered in the National Register 22. Goff Homestead 23. Hornbine Baptist Church Entered in tho National Register 24. Hornbine Schoo1 Entered in the National Begister 25. Horton, Welcome, Farm Entered in tha National Begieter 26. House at 197 Hornbine Road Intered in the National Register 27. House at 30 Kelton Street Intered in the Hational Register 28. Ingalls-Wheeler-Horton Homestead Site 29. Kingsley House Entered in the National Begister Iniered in tho Hathanel Begtetei 30.
Knapp, Seth, Jr., House Entered in the National Register Keeper Attest tkeeper Attest 6Keeper Attest fReeper Attest TReeper Attest fakeeper Attest tkeeper Attest tkeeper Attest Fkeeper Attest 6Keeper Attest Date/Signature Dome haayd 4/6/09 XeluaByen 6/0/83 atelmaßge 6/6/83 delnaByen 616/63 aelruBgun lclr. delureßgen 6/6/83 delmaBgu 6/6/87 delureaßged 616/83 delonaßyer 6/6/83 AelonaByun 616/83 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Dopart Mational Park Service EYALUATION / RETURN SHEET Hornbine School (RehobothMRA) Bristol County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Rovlew: Working No. 425/83 Fed. Reg. Date: Dato Due: Action: Bitered Nationa? 26/8 ACCEPT_ 6/6 - RETURN Regte REJECT_ Federal Agency:. -sample -request _ appeal - NR decision Roviower's comments: Recom. / Criteria - Reviower.
Discipline Date continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification pory ermerahio Mblte soquatattton 4. Owner of Property Uee 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Ias thie property toeen entermainnd oliglote? -1 - n 7. Description aadtlo good teie etertorata ruine hock _ uneitered ,sitered Chocà ene - moved be tho prosont and artginat (i kasora) physieel ap summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8.
Significance Perted Arees of SignificanceCheck and juetity betew Ipecifie dates Btatement ef Significance (in ene peregraph) Builder Architeet summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominsted property Quedrangie neme UMT Reterences Verbal boundary description and justitication 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ netiona! - state - locai State Mistoric Preservation Officer signature dete title 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to. Signed Date .
Phone: 202 272-3504 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Hombin Sch. As. 4/15/75 Hombine s RehohcthMnt1 4-41 0/d 17 180 rJ 144 Hornbine Road Hornbine School (form 62) Town of,Rer both Property Mad scale i" = 2001 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000292