After the schoolhouse closed ... ended up taking us three years because we were basically building a new house inside an old shell of a building," Grissom says. Grissom declined to comment ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read ...

Nine fourth-grade classes — about 220 students — from Ashland's Taft Intermediate School each spent a day at Shelby's Morton ...

Our final stop was the schoolhouse, which stands in disrepair but is still somehow beautiful. Inside the barnlike building, geometric insets on the wood-slat walls speak of mechanical skill and an ...

While the exterior of this house mirrors the facade of the original schoolhouse, the inside features brand new construction with modern amenities, including a fully-equipped kitchen and a large ...

Inside, an energy-efficient heating ... John Mark’s son Alexander deeded two acres for the construction of a one-room schoolhouse. The school operated for 67 years before closing in 1946 ...

After the schoolhouse closed ... ended up taking us three years because we were basically building a new house inside an old shell of a building," Grissom says. Grissom declined to comment ...

Williamsburg Bray School, the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, is nearly restored and will have a dedication ceremony Friday. The school will be open to the public in the ...

As a child growing up in Franklin, Indiana, Stacie Grissom was always curious about who lived in the "coolest house in town" — a former schoolhouse, turned barn, and then quirky residence.