Ainsworth School 1900

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Photo courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

All I know about this photo is what's in the title.

Jan Clemens, in A Pictorial History of Merrillville, has this to say about the Ainsworth school:

Originally, the structure was a one room school with a fieldstone foundation that may have been erected around 1870.

Sometime later, a second room was added and the newer section had a brick foundation. A coat closet separated the two rooms. There is a wooden sign on the building dating it to 1900, but the stone foundation is representative of an earlier period of time.

The same source gives the building date of the brick schoolhouse as 1912.