The Hood Octagonal School is a historic octagonal schoolhouse located in

Newtown Square Newtown Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Prior to 1789 it was part of Chester County. The population was 12,216 as of the 2010 census, and was 19,705 as of 2017. History The first mention of the township was in 1684, ...

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. It was built in 1841, and is a small, fieldstone, one-story, eight sided building with a wood shingled pyramidal roof. The school was abandoned about 1865, then restored in 1964. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 2006. The Newtown Square Historical Society says it was built by James Dunwoody, father of

William Hood Dunwoody William Hood Dunwoody (March 14, 1841 – February 8, 1914) was an American banker, miller, art patron and philanthropist. He was a partner in what is today General Mills and for thirty years a leader of Northwestern National Bank, today's Wells Fa ...

, to replace an earlier log school built by James' father.

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One-room schoolhouses in Pennsylvania School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Octagonal school buildings in the United States School buildings completed in 1841 Schools in Delaware County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania 1841 establishments in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-school-stub