schoolhouse
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Kapisillit's red wooden schoolhouse has a bell, library and Soviet-era hunting rifle to fend off polar bears.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
The schoolhouse is a dull, matted red, as are other architectural elements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Right, he didn't stand in the schoolhouse door.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
They met at the schoolhouse, by the milk house after the work there was done, wherever they could.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
But some, like Second Chance, are brick-and-mortar schoolhouses with dozens of students.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
One of my parents is an IU alum, but more than that, we were all born in Indiana, flat land of cornfields and quarries, churches and schoolhouses, often the punchline of other states' jokes.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
“It sounds so corny, but almost immediately, it was no more gothic churches, no more electronic music. It was guitars and it was schoolhouses and ‘Little House on the Prairie.’”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
Often called “agents,” these operators used their homes, churches, barns, and schoolhouses as “stations.”
From National Geographic Kids ● Jan. 31, 2022
Teachers were called upon to do whatever was necessary to keep the schoolhouses clean, safe, and comfortable for pupils.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
