Information from: The Gazette:
Old school is new school, at least when it comes to preserving Iowa's history. No less than 80 of Iowa's 99 counties have at least one old one-room school that's been turned into a museum. And interest continues to grow.
On October 5 and 6, folks who have a penchant for preservation planned to converge on Coralville for the Iowa Historical Preservation Alliance's "The Future of Country School Preservation & Programming" conference.
That's the story behind the 1876 Coralville Schoolhouse Museum, which will be visited by conference attendees. Built in 1876, the brick school housed students until 1948, when Coralville Central opened. It re-opened in 1951-52 while an addition was built onto the new school. It fell into disrepair as storage and a teen center until the historical society signed a long-term lease in the 1970s. Work continues to this day, with landscaping by master gardeners and the proposed addition of a park between the school and new parking lot.
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