CARR-76

Springdale School

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

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Last Updated: 04-16-2004

Cld single-room schoolhouses in '.:!2.:rroll '.:!ounty are not rare, but very :'ew rer:ain un2.l tereC., or :::-stain the air of their original purpose. The S;;ringd.ale .Schoolhouse, located outside of '/e:.r :ii:id.sor, has recent lJ' t 1een :r:-estored to it's origi!lal condition. Old schoolhouse ?ieces are ho~sed here within the shel~ of the three­bay by three-bay one-story bric:<: structure, and thus the builiint ::stands as a r;i.re C:useu~ piece in the County.

MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

6NAME HISTORIC Springdale School

AND/OR COMMON

Springdale School

llLOCATION STREET& NUMBER Springdale Road (Old Smelsers Mill Road)

CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

.~ t_"-'',,,j "*: VICINITY OF New Windsor 11 STATE

Maryland

DcLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS _DISTRICT

~ILDINGISI _STRUCTURE

_SITE

_OBJECT

_PUBLIC _OCCUPIED

ARIVATE ~~NOCCUPIED _BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS

PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE

_IN PROCESS _x;."i'ES RESTRICTED

_BEING CONSIDERED

DOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Marker E. Lovell

STREET & NUMBER

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llLOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE Carroll County Office Building REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC

STREET & NUMBER 2Z5 North Center Street CITY. TOWN

Westminster

II REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE

DATE

COUNTY

Carroll

PRESENT USE

_AGRICULTURE /i_MUSEUM

_COMMERCIAL __ PARK

_),;;:iDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESID!:NCE

_ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS

__ GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC

_INDUSTRIAL

_MILITARY

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SURVEY RECORDS

CITY. TOWN STATE

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_GOOD

_FAIR

CONDITION

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_RUINS

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_ALTERED

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DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The schoolhouse sits above Springdale Road, fifty feet, facing south east. It stands among old trees on a gentle hill, surrounded primarily by farmland. Springdale Road runs south between Uniontown Road and Maryland Rt. 31 which cuts through New Windsor. The low, uncoursed, stone foundation sup­ports a brick structure of American Bond, three bays wide as well as long, with 6/6 double sash windows. The windows are covered by their own blind · shutters, as the owner want~e house sealed. The back wall is void of win­dows. The gable roof with box cornice is covered with wooden shingles and topped with a very simple, open, wooden belfry with hip roof and again, wood shingles. It contains the origina.l bell. One, single, interior end chimney on the north west side accomodates the interior pot-bellied stove (one similar to the original).

The four-post hip roof porch entrance has a box cornice and wood shingles. The ground level brick walk and floor of the porch is ma.de from over-size handmade bricks, said to be from an old Baltimore school. There is a stone, one step stoop. The front door has five moulded panels with a three-part, rectangular transom light. The plain trim here and on the windows as well as the shutters, cornice and wooden flagpole are painted white. A wooden plaque painted white with black letters is encased above the porch roof in semi-elip­tical brickwork and reads "Springdale School - 18.54"

Reversed S hardware to hold the shutters remain; a pair for each window. The interior is ':l. t ne roo:n classroom and has quite a bit o:f museum po­

tential. Anthentic items grace the room to make it appear in original form. Many items were salvaged from other one room schoolhouses.

The walls and ceilings are of white-washed plaster, save for thinly­boarded wainscot. Window trim is symmetrically moulded, with corner blocks. Wooden clothes pegs are hung along portions of the wall. The floor is wood of random width. There is an elevated section (stage) for the teacher's desk.

Outside there was a water pump and two outhouses.

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Ill SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD

_PREHISTORIC

_1400-1499

_1500-1599

_1600-1699

_1700-1799

~00-1899 _1900-

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

_Jl,RCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

_.A.RCHECLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION _LAI/Ii

_Jl,GRICULTURE _ECONOMICS _U'ERATURE

_Jl,RCHITECTURE :_,~UCATION _MILITARY

_JI.RT _ENGINEERING _MUSIC

_COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY

_COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY _POLITICS•GOVERNME"°T

_INVE,,..TION

SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER/ ARCHITECT

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

_RELIGION

_SCIENCE

_SCUL"~URE

_SOCiAC, HUMANITARIAN

_THEATER

_TRANSPORTATION

_QTHEfi :SPEC 1 FY•

This small, one room schoolhouse survives in excellent, near original condition; and is one of the very few in the county unaltered. other~ have been made into storage or transformed into dwellings. Its restoration from a decayed ani collapsed building to a 'near-new' structure is remarkable, as well as its preservation and maintenance over recent years.

Restoration took three and a half years; completed in the fall of 1963 by Marker Lovell. His brother and mother attended the school, and his granfather taught there from 1884-1886. He himself received six years of his education there.

The school was established as a primary school by three trustees, and was thought to have been built by the people in the area. Its contribution 'o education in this p:irt of the county is substantial. Its position then, as now as a 'stand.a.rd' one room schoolhouse, gives it historical significance.

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IJMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES "Old Carroll County Schoolhouses" -pa.per by Patricia Minnich Jan.-1965

"Bringing a little red schoolhouse to life" -Saturday Sun Magazine Jan. 12, 1974 by Kathryn Geraghty Tubman photos by A. Aubrey Bodine

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VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE Maryland COUNTY Carroll

STATE COUNTY

mFORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Fredi Eckhardt historic site surveyor

ORGANIZATION Carroll County Committee of the Maryland

STREET & NUMBER 210 East Ma.in Street TELEPHONE 848-6494

CITY OR TOWNwestminster STATE Maryland

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringe­ment of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438

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(Dec . 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE • ?'

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NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ~<'.)

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CATEGORY OWNFRSHIP STATUS

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Site ::J Struc ture 0 Private .a- In P1oceu 0 Unoccupied 0 Restricted 0 Both 0 Being Considered 0 Pre1ervotion work Unrestricted 0 Object ::J in progrus 0 No: .a

?RESENT USE (Cho"lc On" Ot More B8 Appropriate)

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17. DESCRIPTION (Cheek One)

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PERIOD (Ch•cl< on .. OT More •• Approprl•le)

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~ . 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CUTIFtCA llON NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION

As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na-

lional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that thla property is included in the

89-66~). 1 hereby nominate this properly for Inclusion Nations I Re11,ister.

1n the National Register and certify that it has been

evaluated according to the critersa and procedures set

forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Office ot Archeology and Hisroric Preservation

level of significance of this nomination is:

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