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Old Albany Schoolhouse

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Built
  
1866 (1866)

NRHP Reference #
  
72000518

Area
  
7,700 m²

Nearest city
  
Sabetha

Architectural style
  
Plains Vernacular

Opened
  
1866

Added to NRHP
  
13 April 1972

Old Albany Schoolhouse

The Old Albany Schoolhouse is a structure in Nemaha County, Kansas that was used as a school from the time of its construction circa 1866-67 to 1963. The school is one of the last remnants of the town of Albany, which declined after a railroad was built closer to the neighboring town of Sabetha. The school is a two story rough limestone structure in the Plains Vernacular style. The corners are marked with quoins, and the school is covered by a hipped roof. After brief service as a church the school became the a museum in 1965, and now serves as the centerpiece of the Albany Museum complex. Other buildings include a railroad museum, windmill, caboose, antique automobiles, tractors and a 1950s period farmhouse. s

The school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1972.

References

Old Albany Schoolhouse Wikipedia