This two-room, red-brick schoolhouse, completed in 1913, is a fine example of the district school building common to Ohio in the early years of the twentieth century. Serving elementary school children in east Berea and adjacent areas of Middleburg Township, the Berea “Little Red Schoolhouse” replaced an original wood-frame, one-room school built on the same site in the late nineteenth century. After it ceased operating as a school, the building was used by the Berea Fine Arts Club from 1933 to 1980, and later by the Berea Jaycess for meetings and community projects. Carefully restored, it was opened to public gatherings by the Berea Little Red Schoolhouse Foundation, inc. and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.