Dryden District School No. 5


Dryden District School No. 5
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	1756 Hanshaw Rd., Dryden, New York
Coordinates	42°28′26″N 76°25′53″W / 42.47389°N 76.43139°W / 42.47389; -76.43139Coordinates: 42°28′26″N 76°25′53″W / 42.47389°N 76.43139°W / 42.47389; -76.43139
Area	less than one acre
Built	1827
Architectural style	Octagon Style
NRHP Reference #	94001282^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 04, 1994

Dryden District School No. 5, also known as Eight Square Schoolhouse, is a historic octagonal school building located in Dryden in Tompkins County, New York. It was built in 1827 and is a simple one-room, one-story, brick octagon style building constructed with a low pitch hipped roof banded by a plain narrow frieze. A circular brick chimney rises from the center of the standing seam metal roof. Also on the property are two free standing, wood frame, gable roofed outhouses. It was used as a school until 1941 and is now a facility of the Dewitt Historical Society.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

Students and teachers in front of the octagonal Eight Square Schoolhouse in Dryden, New York, in 1890.

References

1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Claire L. Ross (August 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Dryden District School No. 5". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-11-10. See also: "Accompanying 10 photos".

External links

The History Center in Tompkins County

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in New York

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