schoolhouse
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Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
“Maybe he will write letters to the road camps for you,” the mother said, “’cause you’ll be so busy with schoolin’ and cleanin’ the schoolhouse for him that you can’t go searchin’ no more.”
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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
“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
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