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Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Early Republic

Address
  
Newtown, PA 18940, USA

Added to NRHP
  
9 November 2007

Built
  
1802

NRHP Reference #
  
07000586

Opened
  
1802

Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse

Location
  
2091 Second Street Pike, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania

Similar
  
Wrightsto Township, Village Library of Wrightsto, Martin Moister Estate

Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse, also known as Wrightstown Eight Square School and Penns Park Octagonal School, is a historic one-room school located at Wrightstown, Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1802, and is a one-story, one room, stone schoolhouse building. It has a wood shingled pyramidal roof and small terra cotta chimney. It operated as a subscription school from its construction until 1850. It was then used as a farm outbuilding, and in the 1980s as an artist's studio. It was restored in 1996.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse Wikipedia