Felix School

Felix School was a one-room schoolhouse at the corner of Eleven Mile and Beamish roads in Jerome Township. Originally built in 1889 and moved to the museum grounds in 1991 after the Holsinger family donated it to the Sanford Historical Society, it had one teacher who taught grades 1 through 8 in the same room. The teacher brought each grade to the front of the room to a long bench, reviewed their work, assigned new work, sent them back to their desks, and then called up the next grade. A wood stove heated the school, the bathroom was an outhouse behind it, and the bell on top of the school called children to school, brought them in from recess, and rang at the end of the school day. The bell on the roof can still be rung on special occasions.

Sanford, Michigan · United States