District School No. 3 (Castleton-on-Hudson, New York)
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District School No. 3 is a historic
one-room school One-room schoolhouses, or One-room schools, have been commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, and Spa ...
building located at Castleton-on-Hudson in
Rensselaer County, New York Rensselaer County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 161,130. Its county seat is Troy, New York, Troy. The county is named ...
. It was built in 1870 and is a one-story, rectangular massed, brick building in the
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...
style. It remained in use as a school until 1951. Also on the property is a gable roofed
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(1931), a coal / wood shed, and a stone capped well. ''See also:'' It was listed on the
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in 1998.


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One-room schoolhouses in New York (state) School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) School buildings completed in 1870 Buildings and structures in Rensselaer County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Rensselaer County, New York {{RensselaerCountyNY-NRHP-stub