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
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
In Guatemala, the residents of México Nuevo — along with several hundred other people who had fled southern Chiapas in late July — were staying at a rural schoolhouse, or living with area families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
Sometimes we sit at the table under the trees outside the schoolhouse after the boys are finished with their school day.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
The Latah School, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, is “one of the oldest, largest, and best preserved rural brick schoolhouses in the Palouse farming region,” according to the register.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
But millions of Americans gave voting a go anyway on Tuesday, dutifully turning up across the country to cast ballots at schoolhouses, libraries and V.F.W. posts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Often called “agents,” these operators used their homes, churches, barns, and schoolhouses as “stations.”
From National Geographic Kids ● Jan. 31, 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
