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schoolhouse

[skool-haus] / 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

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

The schoolhouse is a dull, matted red, as are other architectural elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The schoolhouse had lost some shingles and had the dry, webby look of a schoolhouse in summertime.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

In Lauck’s telling, the region became a hotbed of intellectualism: Carnegie libraries flourished, local philosophical and literary societies emerged, schoolhouses were built, land-grant universities were founded.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022

But millions of Americans gave voting a go anyway on Tuesday, dutifully turning up across the country to cast ballots at schoolhouses, libraries and V.F.W. posts.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

From I-5, several routes deliver you to the mountain, but WA-18 to Green Valley Road runs parallel to the river and charming historic homes, old schoolhouses and red barns.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 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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