Hood Octagonal School

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Hood Octagonal School
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Hood Octagonal School, October 2009
Hood Octagonal School is located in Pennsylvania
Hood Octagonal School
Location 3500 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, Newtown Township, Pennsylvania
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Area less than one acre
Built 1841
Architect Yarnall, Richard Ashbridge
Architectural style Octagon Mode
NRHP Reference # 06000045[1]
Added to NRHP February 14, 2006

The Hood Octagonal School is a historic octagonal schoolhouse located in Newtown Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1841, and is a small, fieldstone, one-story, eight sided building with a wood shingled pyramidal roof. The school was abandoned about 1865, then restored in 1964.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1] The Newtown Square Historical Society says it was built by James Dunwoody, father of William Hood Dunwoody, to replace an earlier log school built by James' father.[3]

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