This is Lindahl Township School (complete with cast iron water pump). The original three-gabled school must have been quite attractive in its day...
...but there also must have been quite a population explosion in later years, enough to warrant two lean-to additions to the school.
Some decorative elements are the arched window in the west-facing gable, small finials at the tips of all three gables and eave returns on the north and south ends of the original school. (An eave return is where the bottom corner of the roof wraps around to the adjacent side of the building...adding a little "touch of class.")
Lindahl Township is thirty-six square miles of farm and pasture land with a population of about sixty people. Lots of space to move around.
Photographed near McGregor, North Dakota on December 18, 2018.
Wonder if that pump would still work (after a bit of priming no doubt!).
ReplyDeleteThose old cast iron pumps seems to last forever.
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