McGee School | |
Location: | Junction of 197th and 145th Aves. |
Coordinates: | 42.5022°N -91.5186°W |
Area: | Less than one acre |
Built: | 1868 |
Added: | October 14, 1999 |
Refnum: | 99001251 |
McGee School, also known as Coffin's Grove Township, District #1, is a one-room schoolhouse located west of Manchester, Iowa, United States. Built in 1868 in a folk-vernacular style, it is a rare example of a brick one-room schoolhouse in Iowa, and the only on left in Delaware County.[1] Also rare is the tall Romanesque arched entryway, which led to a cloakroom on either side. The building is also significant as the only known school associated with Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, a rural school advocate and educator, who taught here from 1883 to 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.