Schoolhouse Touring	PA Schoolhouses
Half-Day Tour	Full Day Tour

 

One of the most unique opportunities that the CSAA conference provides is a schoolhouse tour.  This tour is open to anyone interested in participating in a private opportunity to visit area schoolhouses that have been restored.  There is no need to worry about fuel, directions, or transportation because CSAA arranges a comfortable touring bus that will travel to selected historical schools for Wednesday following the two days of sessions.  This relaxing tour is arranged so that interested participants can actually visit schoolhouses, talk with owners or docents, and have unique opportunities to examine restored buildings that are often only open by appointment.

 

Food and refreshments are provided for all touring participants.  This year two options have been devised: half-day and full day.  See below for details on both tour options. The planned cost for participating in this year tour is $45.00 per person. 

 

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The half-day tour option has been design to offer a shorter morning tour that will allow participants to leave earlier from the conference.  In the past, many participants would follow the bus in personal cars in order to leave at will.  Sometimes this “train” would cause some traffic or parking confusion.  Since many schoolhouses are rural and parking is limited, this option was devised.   The half-day tour will include restored schoolhouses in Westmoreland County.  Departing at 8:30 AM, participants electing the half-day tour will be shuttled to four local schoolhouses:

 

The full-day tour option is for participants that are very interested in the most unique schoolhouses.  The full-day tour will include visits to one-of-a-kind historical schools. Beginning at 8:30 AM the tour will begin with a visit to the Concord School in New Alexandria, Pa, participants will then travel to visit a one-room city school in Butler PA.  The next stop will be an original condition frame school in Six Points, PA and then to Mercer County to visit a school that was turned into a museum the day it closed, Caldwell School.  Following Caldwell School, participants will visit the oldest continuous use schoolhouse in the country, Zuver School.  Zuver School was purchased by the Amish in 1953 and still serves the community as a one-room school to this day.  On the last leg of the tour, participants will visit Hickory Corners School located on Slippery Rock University campus. The final stop will be at the Sample School upon their return through Cranberry, PA.  The tour will enjoy lunch on-site at Caldwell School and will have dinner upon return.

 

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Below are the addresses and contacts for all of the schools visited on the half-day and full-day tours. Additionally listed are other schools that can be visited in the area.  Each of these schools have been contacted and informed that participants of this conference maybe interested in visiting during or around the week of June 15.  Please be sure to call ahead to ensure that someone can show the school.

Schoolhouses Nearest to Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA. These schools will be visited on the half-day tour:

 

Atlantic 40 School Derry Area School District 982N Chestnut ST. EXT. Derry,  PA 15627      724-694-1401	Harrold School No. 8 Baltzer Meyer Historical Society 642 Baltzer Meyer Pike Greensburg, PA 15601-9711 724- 836-6915
Amos Hutchinson Schoolhouse Greenburg Salem School District 810 Welty Street Greensburg, PA 15601 724-832-2885 (Replica)	Concord Schoolhouse 730 Koontz Road New Alexandria, PA 15670 724-668-2579
Old Concord School Rostraver Township Historical Soc. 201 Municipal Drive Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15012 724-929-7277