Unionville District School

of the ell on the south side, which was added around 1890, have segmental arches. The simple gable roof is shingled, and the plain corner block design, is intact. In the southwest angle of the ell a frame addition with two toilet rooms was added in the 1920s. CONDITION DETERIORATED RUINS GOOD FAIR CHECK ONE main front and the ell.

overhanging eaves are unornamented.In the front gable there is There are modern concrete stoops at the entrances of both the have simple rectangular stone lintels and sills.The door and windows asa kitchen area.All of the original woodwork,with a bulls-eye block consists of one large room.The walls and ceiling are covered a small square opening into the attic.The interior of the original The Unionville School is a one-story L-shaped brick structure with stone with a cut stone water table.The windows of the main block _UNALTERED - UNEXPOSED The foundations are of random with vertical tongue-and-groove boards.The ell has been adapted a partial basement and an attic. DATE. AREAS OF

urally, this school differs from the typical red brick schoolhouse over the next two years, and the school was actually built in 1855. local community, its physical evidence of adaptation to growing needs, and its location on a continuously-used site, the Unionville 1800-1899 1400-1499 1700-1799 CONSERVATION 1900- ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY SCIENCE MILITARY INVENTION _PREHISTORIC MUSIC _1600-1699 _COMMERCE District School is a significant local historic place. The first recorded school in the Unionville district was established in 1968.

_COMMUNICATIONS _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The Unionville District School is an important structure in the history Because of its contribution to the basic educational process in the _1500-1599 the construction of a new brick school house for the Unionville SPECIFIC DATES site.Another school building was already located on the site in 1835 when it was sold to the school district. A report recommending _ENGINEERING _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN a local school until 1962.It was acquired by the township trustees of the township and the local community, standing on a site which Around 1890 the school was enlarged to provide a second classroom -LITERATURE because of its L-shaped plan.

by the addition of the ell.The building was used continuously as - LAW in 1814, but it is not known whether it was located on the present has been used for educational purposes since before 1835. Architect-