Built 1827 NRHP Reference # 94001282 Area 3,642 m² | Architectural style Octagon Style Opened 1827 Added to NRHP 4 November 1994 | |
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Location 1756 Hanshaw Rd., Dryden, New York | ||
Dryden District School No. 5, also known as Eight Square Schoolhouse, is a historic octagonal school building located in Dryden in Tompkins County, New York. It was built in 1827 and is a simple one-room, one-story, brick octagon style building constructed with a low pitch hipped roof banded by a plain narrow frieze. A circular brick chimney rises from the center of the standing seam metal roof. Also on the property are two free standing, wood frame, gable roofed outhouses. It was used as a school until 1941 and is now a facility of the Dewitt Historical Society.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
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