Hund School is a historic

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 ...

northwest of the city of Leavenworth in

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. A wood bungalow, it was built in 1939 on land donated to the local school district by Wendelin and Josephine Hund in 1882. It replaced a school building that was destroyed in a fire. The school building is typical of other rural schoolhouses built in Kansas. Within the building is a cloakroom, classroom with built-in library shelves, and a basement. Outside the school building is a hand-pump for water and an outhouse. The school operated from 1939 to 1965, serving primarily children of German heritage within walking distance. It was listed on the

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in 2000. In 2000, the building was used as a storefront for Hund School Crafts. It is the last one-room schoolhouse remaining in its original form, inside and out, in Leavenworth County. (Text also available from Kansas
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School buildings completed in 1939 Defunct schools in Kansas Public schools in Kansas Former school buildings in the United States Leavenworth, Kansas School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas One-room schoolhouses in Kansas Schoolhouses in the United States Buildings and structures in Hamilton County, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Leavenworth County, Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub

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