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Upper Brownlee School

Coordinates: 44°02′07″N 116°14′14″W / 44.035252°N 116.237096°W / 44.035252; -116.237096
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Upper Brownlee School
Photograph of the Upper Brownlee School
The school building's exterior in 2015
Upper Brownlee School is located in Idaho
Upper Brownlee School
Upper Brownlee School is located in the United States
Upper Brownlee School
LocationOn Dry Buck Road, 0.1 miles (0.16 km) NE of jct. with Timber Butte Road
Nearest citySweet, Idaho
Coordinates44°02′07″N 116°14′14″W / 44.035252°N 116.237096°W / 44.035252; -116.237096
Arealess than one acre
Built1911 (1911)
MPSPublic School Buildings in Idaho MPS
NRHP reference No.98000264[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 31, 1998

The Upper Brownlee School is a historic school building located on Dry Buck Road near Sweet, Idaho, United States. The school was built in 1911 by the residents of Brownlee, one of the several small mining communities which had grown in the Boise River basin in the late 19th century. The two-room schoolhouse was built in keeping with contemporary standards for rural schools; it provided for heating and ventilation, had several windows to provide light, included two cloakrooms and a library room, and featured hand-carved wooden trim for decoration. Like many rural Idaho schools, the schoolhouse also served as the local community center. The declining local population and the expense of new safety regulations in the 1940s spelled the end of Brownlee's school, and the district merged into Sweet's district in 1951. The building was purchased by area residents to serve as a community center and is now the only active community building in the area.[2]

The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 1998.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Buckendorf, Madeline; Bauer, Barbara Perry (June 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Upper Brownlee School" (PDF). Idaho State Historical Society. Retrieved November 27, 2015.