West Union School

Description of the property

five feet in width. The building rests on a cut sandstone foundation, with the in- dividual stones measuring eighteen inches in height, up to thirteen inches in depth, probably cut from native poplar. The building features a gable roof, covered by a gable, and measures approximately six feet in length by eight feet in width, with a height of approximately twelve feet to the ridge of its own gable roof. Four-panel double doors open into the vestibule from the outside. Three double-hung windows are of the ridge of the main roof, and no doubt functioned in conjunction with a wood- or portion of the east gable, directly above the vestibule, is a metal sign, now faded beyond recognition.

On the outside gable wall of the vestibule, above the main en- erected 1858." The interior of West Union School seems to have been altered little from the construction: two recitation desks seven feet in length, and a teacher's desk with primary and twenty-four secondary), dating from the late nineteenth century, are also CONDITION EXCELLENT DETERIORATED UNALTERED XALTERED CHECK ONE FAIR West Union Road),and measures approximately thirty-five feet in length by twenty- inches in height, extending six feet into the room and running the entire width of house is furnished with three pieces said to date from the time of the building's used in the classroom.

been removed from the front of the ridge of the main roof.Centered in the upper and up to forty-six inches in length.The school is entirely sided with clapboard, original.There is one main room plus.the vestibule area.The ceiling height is _RUINS XGOOD nine lights, set in forty-six inch by eighty-six inch frames, with the individual panes the north and south wall of the vestibule.

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Statement of significance

the building has been painted recently, and minor repairs have been made, members of the West Union Community Club plan to renew their annual summer picnic-reunion for former West Union teachers (three of whom are still living), students, friends years, many of the once-numerous one-room school houses have been abandoned.

West these facts, the school building is probably the best-preserved frame one-room building 1700-1799 1400-1499 ECONOMICS INVENTION COMMUNICATIONS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC PHILOSOPHY TRANSPORTATION COMMERCE ART MILITARY PREHISTORIC unknown AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY THEATER SIGNIFICANCE SCIENCE RELIGION SCULPTURE XARCHITECTURE LITERATURE XEDUCATION _CONSERVATION MUSIC -1500-1599 With the demise of the small country school districts over the past twenty-five District was consolidated with the New Concord (now East Muskingum) District.

-1600-1699 the building has played a role beyond that of providing for the educational needs of District when the Township consisted of five districts.The first school house was This fine one-room schoolhouse was built on a part of the land grant given to on the property of William Richey (now the Howard Neptune farm),less than one-half in the area.

building from the time of its construction until the fall of 1933,when the West Union Union School has served theoeducational needs of this area for almost eighty years, mile from the original building.Classes were held continuously in the West Union founded in 1924,and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at the school house.Since this rural area of Muskingum County.These meetings have been varied in nature, in- George Richey.West Union School was in District Three of the Union Township School and is now experiencing a revitalization asa community social center.In addition to -LAW 9