Property Record
MAPLE GLEN ROAD, E SIDE, .3 MILE N OF MAPLE RIDGE RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Maple Glen School |
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| Other Name: | Jenkins, E. L. |
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| Reference Number: | 55796 |
| Location (Address): | MAPLE GLEN ROAD, E SIDE, .3 MILE N OF MAPLE RIDGE RD |
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| County: | Grant |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Platteville |
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| Town: | 3 |
| Range: | 1 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 20 |
| Quarter Section: | SW |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | SW |
| Year Built: | 1865 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1995 |
| Historic Use: | school-one to six room |
| Architectural Style: | Front Gabled |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Metal |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. 1995- "Frame, vernacular, ca. 1865, front-gabled schoolhouse with standing seam metal roof and pressed metal siding stamped to look like brick. The foundation is rather high and has windows in it. The front has an enclosed vestibule across it. A chimney rises from the ridge near the front facade. The building faces southward; the photograph is of the west facade, which faces the road. There is a schoolhouse at this location on all of the plat maps, including the earliest map available, for 1868. On some maps it is referred to as "School #6," and on some it is labelled the "Maple Glen School." In 1932, Grant County had 189 of these district schools, at classes were held about 180 days per year. In 1932 an historian boasted that " all [of the rural schoolhouses in Grant County] are now properly ventilated and heated and provided with proper sanitary conveniences and good water" (Gregory, The History of Southwestern Wisconsin, p. 562). Thea Wolfe was the last teacher at the Maple Glen schoolhouse before it closed in 1966. Although there were 189 such rural schoolhouses in Grant County in 1932, only a handful of stone schoolhouses and one frame schoolhouse were included in the 1976 windshield survey of the county. The frame schoolhouse surveyed in 1976 was a quite intact example of a one room schoolhouse, complete with apparently original siding and a bell tower. The fact that this and the Block House School [55766] were not inventoried makes it clear that the surveyor did not believe that one-room schoolhouses were necessary to document, so the actual number of such schoolhouses remaining in the county is not known. Even though many such schoolhouses once existed, most have been converted to housing and suffered alterations in the process. Many have simply been demolished. The Maple Glen schoolhouse is abandoned but appears to retain a great deal of its integrity. The metal siding was probably added in the early part of the twentieth century when the building was still in use as a schoolhouse. -"USH 151, Dickeyville to Belmont", WisDOT# 1209-02-00, Prepared by Katherine Hundt Rankin (Preservation Consultant) for Rust Environment & Infrastructure Inc, 1995. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |