Municipal Heritage Property
Pinto River School
Auvergne RM 76, Saskatchewan
Also known as Pinto River Community Centre, Pinto River School, District No. 3281
Front elevation of Pinto River School.
Photo: Clint Robertson, 2006.
- Built
- 1915
- Recognized
- 1985
- By
- Local government
The register’s text, word for word
Description
The Pinto River School is a Municipal Heritage Property located in the Rural Municipality of Auvergne No. 76, 14.5 kilometres south of the Village of Aneroid. The property features a wood-frame, one-room, country schoolhouse built in 1915.
Heritage value
The Pinto River School is of heritage importance for its service to the community, primarily as a schoolhouse for Pinto River School District # 3281, from 1915 until 1958. During this time, the schoolhouse also served many additional roles, such as a community meeting place and place of worship. The interior, complete with blackboards, reflects its historic schoolhouse function. Upon its closure as a school, the local citizens maintained the structure for various community activities, most notably as the clubhouse for local 4-H events.
The property is also of heritage value for its architecture, making it a community landmark. On its original site of construction, the hip roofed, one-room schoolhouse retains its originals cladding, plan and sign, making it a familiar landmark in the area.
Source:
Rural Municipality of Avergne No. 76 Bylaw No. 1985-4.
Character‑defining elements
The heritage value of the Pinto River School resides in the following character-defining elements:
-those elements that reflect the property’s use as a schoolhouse, including its location on its original site, grassed schoolyard, its open, one-room plan;
-those elements that reflect the property’s architecture that make it a community landmark, including its one-storey, regular rectangular plan on basement with smaller east elevation gabled roof porch; raw concrete foundation and porch steps; wood-frame construction with bevelled siding, cornerboards and trim; cedar-shingled, hipped roof with closed tongue-and-groove eaves; two small rectangular windows immediately below the eaves; tall, red-brick, exterior chimney.
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Location
Auvergne RM 76, Saskatchewan, S9H, Canada
50.27895° N, 107.77701° W
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