schoolhouses
Where classes meet
Schoolhouses is the plural of schoolhouse, a building where classes are held.
The word evokes rural or small-town education—the one-room schoolhouse of American frontier history: The old schoolhouse still stands at the edge of town.
Modern usage tends toward school building instead, making schoolhouse slightly nostalgic or quaint.
Having no divisions
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- clapboardOverlapping exterior wood planks
- woodenMade from timber
- ruralOf the countryside
brick · portico · cupola · weathervane · chalkboard · desks · slate · inkwell
Sovereign state or territory
- villageSmall rural community
- townshipCounty's smaller division
- districtBounded administrative area
- crossroadsMeeting of routes
farming community · isolated · remote · walking distance · horse-drawn · dirt road · creek · meadow
Early explorer or settler
- frontierEdge of settlement
- colonialOf occupied territories
- VictorianOf a prim era
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
settlement · westward expansion · homestead · hornbook · quill pen · dunce cap · hickory stick · recitation
Heritage artifacts or music
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- simpler timesIdealized past era
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- memoryMind's retention capacity
restoration · museum · historic site · landmark · tourism · reenactment · living history · old-fashioned
one-room
Having no divisions
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- clapboardOverlapping exterior wood planks
- woodenMade from timber
rural · brick · portico · cupola · weathervane · chalkboard · desks · slate · inkwell · primer
country
Sovereign state or territory
crossroads · farming community · isolated · remote · walking distance · horse-drawn · dirt road · creek · meadow · pasture
pioneer
Early explorer or settler
prairie · settlement · westward expansion · homestead · hornbook · quill pen · dunce cap · hickory stick · recitation · rote learning
Americana
Heritage artifacts or music
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- simpler timesIdealized past era
- traditionCustom passed through generations
memory · restoration · museum · historic site · landmark · tourism · reenactment · living history · old-fashioned · quaint
- frontier lifehomesteaders, farmer, homesteading, shepherd, pioneer women
- frontier relicsarrowheads, covered wagons, wagon wheels, log cabins, prairie homesteads
- school historycollege history, teacher training, grading systems, diplomas, founding date
- schooling historyhornbooks, one-room schools, schoolmasters, primers, slates
- Living HistoryColonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Renaissance fairs, medieval villages, Viking settlements
- educationeducation, schools, teachers, students, learning
schoolhousesuniversities
Institutions granting advanced degrees
colleges · graduate schools · research institutions · professional schools · seminaries
schoolhouseshomeschools
Teaches children at residence
home education · private tutoring · self-directed learning · apprenticeships · informal education
- one-room schoolhouseSingle-chamber rural school