313 Mansfield, Warren County Historical Society

You are looking at what was once a one-room schoolhouse, where history and other subjects were taught. Now it is a piece of the history of this town, housing the Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society. It was originally just a small frame structure of 14x20 ft., crudely built. Primitively built desks stood with their backs to the wall and for seats, log slabs with round sticks as legs were driven into bored holes. It ceased to be a school house in 1822, when a stone school house was built on the north side of the Pequest. The school house portion stands at the back and the brick house was added to the original structure.

Noteworthy Federal Era details include the lack of ornamentation, and the expected lunette above the front door is actually achieved through the rounded pair of doors.