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Buck Creek School

Coordinates: 39°4′4″N 95°17′41″W / 39.06778°N 95.29472°W / 39.06778; -95.29472
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Buck Creek School
Buck Creek School is located in Kansas
Buck Creek School
Buck Creek School is located in the United States
Buck Creek School
Nearest cityPerry, Kansas
Coordinates39°4′4″N 95°17′41″W / 39.06778°N 95.29472°W / 39.06778; -95.29472
Arealess than one acre
Builtc.1878
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.88002830[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1988

Buck Creek School is a historic school in Perry, Kansas.

It was built in about 1878, closed in 1952 and added to the National Register in 1988.

It is a 25 by 40 feet (7.6 m × 12.2 m) plan building with limestone blocks forming its west, south, and east walls, and limestone rubble forming its north wall.[2]

During the opening credits of the television movie The Day After, the school can be seen with both exterior and interior shots.

References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (November 7, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Buck Creek School". National Park Service. Retrieved October 14, 2017. With 11 photos from 1998.