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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Knearl School

The Knearl School, at 314 S. Clayton St. in Brush, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is a red brick one-story building, about 58 by 30 feet (17.7 m × 9.1 m) in plan, built in 1911. It was used as a school until 1971.

The school served about 100 students each year, usually in just grades 1 to 3, in years before 1964, when students had dropped to around 30 in total. It largely served the sugar beet farming workforce, which grew rapidly to staff a new facility in Brush opened by the Great Western Sugar Company.

It was named for William Knearl, a business leader and president of the school board, who donated the land for the school.

It is the first stop in a walking tour of Brush's historic sites, whose brochure notes that it became the Brush Area Museum and Cultural Center in 2005.

A 1999 study, the "Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission" set standards for historic registration of schools like this.

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References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ Wayne Carlson (August 20, 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Knearl School / 5MR627". National Park Service. Retrieved April 15, 2021. With accompanying four photos from 1996 and one from c.1912
  3. ^ "Stepping back in time: Knearl School". Brush News-Tribune. August 4, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  4. ^ "Downtown Brush Historic Walking Tour" (PDF). Brush Historic Preservation Board. 2015.
  5. ^ Suzanne Doggett; Holly Wilson (March 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Rural School Buildings in Colorado". National Park Service. Retrieved April 15, 2021.