The Debs School is an historic rural schoolhouse that was built in 1926 in

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. It is located near

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. It has also been known as Upper Piedra School, 5HN642, and the Debs Community Building. It was listed on the

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in 2005. It is Hinsdale County's only surviving

one-room schoolhouse One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and s ...

. It was deemed significant for its architecture: its exterior walls are built of rock face ornamental concrete blocks, one of three identified schools in the state using that construction. It was named for socialist labor leader

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. It served as a school from 1926 to 1951; it also served as a meeting hall. and

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Hinsdale County, Colorado One-room schoolhouses in Colorado School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Hinsdale County, Colorado School buildings completed in 1926 Eugene V. Debs 1926 establishments in Colorado Ornamental block buildings {{Colorado-NRHP-stub