Yorkville #4 School

This one-room Italianate-style schoolhouse has been the center of the Yorkville community since its construction in 1885. Built when one-room schoolhouses dominated rural education in Wisconsin, it also served as a community meeting place. In 1938 the Works Progress Administration raised the schoolhouse and added a full basement containing some of the first indoor bathrooms and running water in the township. The school closed in 1959 because of consolidation. In October 1966 the Yorkville 4-H club purchased the building for $3,000, named it the Clover Center, and still holds its project meetings there. Yorkville No. 4 School remains an excellent example of the one-room schoolhouses that once were so common throughout Wisconsin.

Yorkville, Wisconsin · United States