schoolhouse
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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
She would wait patiently outside the schoolhouse all day long.
From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
The school is representative of the schoolhouses for African-American children that sprang up in the rural South after the Civil War.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
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
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
Teachers were called upon to do whatever was necessary to keep the schoolhouses clean, safe, and comfortable for pupils.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
