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schoolhouse

[skool-hous] / ˈskulˌhaʊs /


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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

Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.

From Salon Apr. 8, 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

Besides the schoolhouse and open-air market, there just wasn’t much else to do in the village—another none-too-subtle reminder for children to leave to find adventure when they were old enough.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

The school is representative of the schoolhouses for African-American children that sprang up in the rural South after the Civil War.

From Seattle Times May 24, 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

But he spent increasing amounts of time in Navy schoolhouses, talking about leadership and the lessons of his experience and forging relationships with hundreds of officers and enlisted sailors.

From Washington Post Aug. 10, 2022

“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

What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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