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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

If the schoolhouse had been open, I could find the route to Colorado on a map.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

The Latah School, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, is “one of the oldest, largest, and best preserved rural brick schoolhouses in the Palouse farming region,” according to the register.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

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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