Correctionville's first brick schoolhouse has stood here since 1872. Residents working for a local brickyard dug nearby clay, hand-formed it, and fired it for the schoolhouse. For most of Correctionville's history, the old brick schoolhouse has served local needs. It was used as a school for its first 12 years, until enrollment grew large enough that a bigger school was needed. The building provided extra classrooms again in the late 1880s and between 1956 and 1976 because of large enrollments. Since 1884, it has been used primarily as a meeting place for military veterans and auxiliary groups. It first housed the Grand Army of the Republic, Union veterans of the Civil War, and the Women's Relief Corps, and it was called G.A.R. Hall. Following World War I, the American Legion and Auxiliary also met in G.A.R. Hall. Between the 1950s and 1970s, veterans groups met in Merchants State Bank so the building could be used as classrooms. The veterans returned to the G.A.R. Hall/Vets Center in 1979. Repairs were made in the 1950s and 1990s, and in the late 1990s the community raised money, obtained funding from Missouri River Historical Development and recruited volunteers to replace the windows, roof, gutters, and downspouts, and tuck-point the building. In 2002, a new bell tower was added and the original bell was rehung, bringing the building closer to its original appearance. Today it is used by the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Legion Auxiliary.