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Fonder School

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1883. 1981, restoration, Bernard Wayne Lorance. 5219 Colorado 83 (Parker Rd.)

So that his wife would have a place to teach Franktown children, Hubert Fonder and some neighbors erected this school along the banks of Cherry Creek using local rhyolite and pine. A cross gable joins two front-gabled wings, one of rubblestone and one half-timbered, flanking the side-lighted entrance. The stone gable end also has a transomed door centered in it, with the lintel inscribed “1883.” After closing as a school in 1949, it was restored in 1981 for community use.

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Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Fonder School", [Castle Rock, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-DA13.

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