Sweet Home Common School No.15 stood on the east side of Sweet Home Road south of Tonawanda Creek Road, one-quarter mile from the Erie Barge Canal, in northwest Amherst's "French Settlement," where German-speaking families from Alsace-Lorraine settled after traveling the Erie Canal to rural farmland. Built in 1847 as a one-room school for grades 1-8 and used until 1948, it was constructed by farmers at a cost of $125 on land bought for $20 with funds raised by local voters in Sweet Home District #15. The one-story wooden building has a plank exterior covered in clapboarding, a wood-shingled roof, pine board ceiling, board flooring, lath-and-plaster walls, shelving and benches for pupils, a rear closet for supplies, a wood stove for heat, separate cloakrooms for girls and boys, and a raised wooden platform for the teacher. Its faded Prussian Blue interior paint survives from more than 100 years ago, and its original sandbox remains, where children first formed letters in sand before advancing to slates because paper was a luxury in a mid-19th-century farming community. In 1847, the first teacher, Mathias Fuller, earned $14 a month and usually teachers boarded with local farm families. Well cared for throughout its use, the building survived essentially intact as an accurate reflection of a typical rural school before the Civil War, and four common school districts later consolidated into what is now the Sweet Home Central School District.