Hornby School
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Hornby School
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Hornby School in June 2013
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| Location | 10000 Station Road, Greenfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 42°6′59.9″N 79°51′57.6″W / 42.116639°N 79.866000°WCoordinates: 42°6′59.9″N 79°51′57.6″W / 42.116639°N 79.866000°W |
| Area | 1.1 acres (0.4 ha) |
| Built | 1875 |
| Built by | Fred Hart |
| Architectural style | Vernacular |
| NRHP Reference # | 08000783 |
| Added to NRHP | August 13, 2008 |
Hornby School is a one-room schoolhouse in Greenfield Township, Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The school was one of the ten similar schools constructed in Greenfield Township, and is one of only two one-room schoolhouses remaining in Erie County that are not heavily altered. The schoolhouse was constructed in 1875, and was originally called Shadduck School. Hornby School stayed in continuous operation as a school until 1956. It was restored and opened as the Hornby School Museum in 1984, and was listed on National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Hornby School is located on Station Road (Pennsylvania Route 430) in Greenfield Township, a 1⁄4-mile (0.4 km) from the intersection of Station and Williams Roads. The school consists of a one-story, frame building 36 feet (11 m) long and 22 feet (7 m). Its gable roof shingled with cedar shakes and topped with a belfry. The interior of the school divided into three rooms: the cloakroom, the wood storage room, and the school classroom. The schoolhouse was not built with indoor plumbing; water is supplied from a well and hand pump adjacent to the building. Also on the property is a two-person outhouse; only one stall is operational with the other being used for storage. The original holding pit beneath the outhouse was removed and replaced with a septic tank in 1982.
The first school to be established in Greenfield Township was at Colt Station in 1820. Shadduck School was originally a log cabin built in 1850; the building was replaced in 1865 with another log cabin. After the passage of the Free Schools Acts of 1834 by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, state funding allowed Greenfield Township to build ten, frame, one-room schoolhouses that either replaced older schools or established new ones. On December 23, 1873, the Greenfield Township School Board authorized the construction of two new schoolhouses—replacing the older Shadduck School and another schoolhouse. The school board decided on a location for the building on June 12, 1875, and the school was completed by October 27.
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