Hi, I was wondering if you have any more information about the history of this property as a school? This house belonged to my grandparents. As far as I am aware, according to my grandmother, the current house was not the school house, but was built on the same site after the school was either torn down or destroyed by a fire. Unfortunately my grandparents passed several years ago, so I'm just relying on memory. My mother has the property abstract, which I need to take another look at. Growing up, we did have the original school bell, and there is still one there, but I think it's a different bell and the neighbors a few houses down have the original now.
We have no information about it at all, only that it was a school. Your comment about the school being replaced by this house makes it very sad that another school has been lost to history.
After some more consulting, I believe it is the original school house. The fire might have been before this one was built, pre-1900. I just remember my grandmother talking about a fire and it being a school house. After a bit of research, it seems the school was converted into a residence in the 1950s. My grandfather built the garage, and the "addition" to the front is just the front porch having been enclosed (which I will be undoing once we've cleaned the place up and begun working on restoring the house).
Thank you so much for going to all that trouble. What an interesting history! I appreciated the extra information.
April 1, 2021 at 7:54 AM
Closed in the 1950s. Address is 5616 Honey Grove Rd. From Ely one can proceed north on Jappa Rd to US30, and directly across the highway the road becomes Honey Grove Rd. From Cedar Rapids one would take C Street south and turn east under the railroad overpass on to old Ely Rd for a short distance and then turn east on Old River Rd. Proceed ENE to Big Bend Rd, then proceed south to where it forks left and right on Honey Gove Rd; one needs to turn to the left to the school. Over grown and not taken care of; shows an addition to the front, and a garage attached to its west side.
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posted by Glenn E. Chatfield at 5:45 PM on Mar 5, 2018
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Close this window Jump to comment formHi, I was wondering if you have any more information about the history of this property as a school? This house belonged to my grandparents. As far as I am aware, according to my grandmother, the current house was not the school house, but was built on the same site after the school was either torn down or destroyed by a fire. Unfortunately my grandparents passed several years ago, so I'm just relying on memory. My mother has the property abstract, which I need to take another look at. Growing up, we did have the original school bell, and there is still one there, but I think it's a different bell and the neighbors a few houses down have the original now.
December 25, 2020 at 9:39 AM
Hi Jessica,
We have no information about it at all, only that it was a school. Your comment about the school being replaced by this house makes it very sad that another school has been lost to history.
December 25, 2020 at 11:08 AM
After some more consulting, I believe it is the original school house. The fire might have been before this one was built, pre-1900. I just remember my grandmother talking about a fire and it being a school house. After a bit of research, it seems the school was converted into a residence in the 1950s. My grandfather built the garage, and the "addition" to the front is just the front porch having been enclosed (which I will be undoing once we've cleaned the place up and begun working on restoring the house).
April 1, 2021 at 7:10 AM
Jessica,
Thank you so much for going to all that trouble. What an interesting history! I appreciated the extra information.
April 1, 2021 at 7:54 AM