The one-room schoolhouse was once a signature of the American education landscape with roughly 190,000 such schools in 1919. Today, roughly 400 remain.

The one-room schoolhouse's red painted wood walls — first erected in 1868 — have seen better days. There are holes where squirrels and chipmunks have slowly chipped away the wood, making their ...

The 'little red schoolhouse' of legend, whatever its flaws, made more sense than the warehouse-schools of today. ... One-room schools were often white and seldom red.

"This building is the only one-room school that is used as a school in Belmont County,” Rattine said. “There are other counties that have one-room schools, but not many.