Walnut Green School

United States historic place


Walnut Green School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Walnut Green School, November 2011
39°47′37″N 75°37′31″W / 39.79359°N 75.62533°W / 39.79359; -75.62533
Area	less than one acre
Built	1919 (1919)-1924
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	94001014^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 19, 1994

Walnut Green School, also known as District School Number 25, is a historic one-room school building located at Greenville, New Castle County, Delaware. It was founded in 1808 and in 1924 was said to be the oldest schoolhouse in the state.^[2] It is a one-story, five-bay, rectangular, gambrel-roofed, white-stuccoed stone building in the Colonial Revival style. The school building dates to the late-18th century, but was expanded and remodeled in 1918–1924.^[3] The school closed in 1947,^[4] because parents wanted their children to go to the AI duPont school district.^[5]^[6]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Entertain for Old Walnut Green". The Evening Journal (Wilmington DE). July 31, 1924.
^ MacDonald, Betty (October 16, 1954). "The Walnut Green School". The News Journal (Wilmington, DE).
^ Susan Brizzolara (July 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Walnut Green School". National Park Service. and accompanying 12 photos
^ "Old Walnut Green To End 140 Years' Service". The News Journal (Wilmington, DE). October 8, 1947.
^ "School Merger Proposal Is Stirring Fight". The Evening Journal (Wilmington, DE). August 22, 1942.