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Upper Village Public School, District No. 1, Athens NY

The historic school-house is located at 134 North Franklin Street in the town of Athens New York.

A newspaper article in the Vedder Library references the building approaching completion. http://www.vedderlibrary.org/

"The new Public School house in Athens, is rapidly approaching completion. Brick is the material used, and Lewis Wolfe is the builder, which gaurantees a good job.  The grounds embrace one acre.  Total cost from $8,000 to $10,000.  It is to be in readiness for the opening of the fall term.  It is to fitted up with the most modern school furniture.  The main building is sixty feet deep by forty in width, with an extension forty feet deep by eighteen feet in width, the whole being divided into three departments, with class rooms.  The structure is one story and an attic, with elaborate tower and bellfry, and is to be finished up in good style with georgia pine floors, chesnut wainscoating and hard finished walls."

The weather vane that used to sit on the bellfry is located at the Vedder Museum archive in Coxsackie NY