Rock School
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Masonic Temple (Rock School)
1889, M. Gaffney, builder. 281 W. 7th St. (northeast corner of Tipton St.) (NR)
A well-preserved, front-gabled, one-room school constructed of the local sandstone, this is the oldest schoolhouse in the county. The dressed stone block walls have raised quoins. A band course above the raised basement incorporates the lintels of recessed windows. Random-coursed walls change to regular courses of smaller stones in the gable ends. The stonemason and fellow workers labored for a dollar a day on the building.
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