The first One Room School House
looked like an Early Settler house. As time went on some buildings had gable roofs with
straight lines. A number of influences gave them their characteristics. The brackets under
the eaves are Italianate. The white trim which follows the eaves forms a pediment of a
Greek Revival homes. The triangle over the windows are a carpenter's version of the Gothic
Revival.The gable roof is the triangular upper portion of a
wall at the end of a pitched roof. A bracket is a support for a shelf or other weight
attached to a wall. A pediment is in classical architecture. It is a low pitched
triangular gable above a portico. A portico is a roofed space, open or partly closed,
forming the entrance of a house like a porch roof. There are many styles including the
Greek Revival.
The time period that this was popular was from the early 1700's thru
the 1900's.
People had to live close to the school because the children had to
walk to school. There was only one room for all the children. School was very important to
early settlers; therefore it was one of the first things they built. The schools were
started for religious reasons, mainly so that children could read from the Bible.