Historic Schoolhouses

The old Rapp schoolhouse is one of the few, if not the only, one-room, eight-grade schoolhouses in Kansas that still has its original desk...

The Columbian Schoolhouse, built in 1893, was named after the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. Later shortened to Columbia, the school conducted its last...

The Topsy School is a one-room school which was moved to its present site, east of the Kyne House Museum in August 1986 from...

The one-room Nicol School building symbolizes the cultural and social importance of education to the pioneers. It represents the 94 one-room rural schools that...

The first school, built in 1870, was a log cabin provided by Berryman Smith. The teacher, Mrs. O.M. "Billie" Smith, had 25 students enrolled....

Osage County is fortunate to have many one-room schoolhouses still standing.

As one of four buildings on the Tonganoxie Historical Society site, the Honey Valley schoolhouse – district #56 - was organized on March 25,...

George Ficken Jr. donated land one and one-half miles west of Bison for a German Methodist Episcopal Church and school. Construction began in 1878...

Riverside School, located in the Museum complex, is the replica of a one room country school complete with furnishings. It also houses a large...

When the Germans settled on the Kansas high plains over a century ago, after homesteading their farm and establishing a church, the next priority...