First Schoolhouse, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Photograph depicting the snow covered exterior of the first school building in Waterloo built in 1820.
- Notes
- After 1842 building was moved to King Street West near Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School (KCI), where the family of Levi and Margaret Carroll lived in it until 1891. It was purchased by the Waterloo Park Board in 1894, moved to Waterloo Park and is now fully restored.
Sign above door reads; "First School House in Waterloo. Built 1820".
See Detail photos for complete image.
- Date of Original
- [ca. 1900]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 1900]
- Dimensions
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Width: 51 cm
Height: 41 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 51cm
Image Height: 41cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- J-5-9 Oversize
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.467513 Longitude: -80.530107
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- Copyright Statement
- Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
