District School No. 14
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The former District School No. 14 building is located on Academy Street in Pine Hill, New York, United States. It is a concrete-sided frame building erected in the mid-1920s.
District School No. 14 | |
Location | Academy St., south of the junction with Birch Cr. Rd., Pine Hill, NY |
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Nearest city | Kingston |
Coordinates | 42°8′5″N 74°28′45″W |
Built | 1925[1] |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, American Craftsman |
NRHP reference No. | 97000111 |
Added to NRHP | February 21, 1997 |
It replaced an 1880s school on the site that had burned down. Architecturally it combines the Colonial Revival and American Craftsman styles, both popular at the time it was built. Its interior layout also reflects changes in school building standards issued by New York's Education Department in 1910 that ended the one-room schoolhouse era in rural areas such as that section of the Catskills.
Classes were held there until 1960, when all the small local school districts in that area of western Ulster County were centralized. Afterwards it went through a variety of commercial reuses. Later it was transferred to the Town of Shandaken, which has converted it into the local historical museum known as the Town of Shandaken Historical Museum.
In 1997 the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the Pine Hill Historic District.