Old Stone School House
Main Street
Greenwich, NJ 08323

Owner: Township of Greenwich

Use: Open to public when Artists have an exhibition (of their work).

Notes:
Within Greenwich Historic District
Not within Greenwich Historic Conservation Zone.

General Information:
Construction 1811

Successively used as a militia headquarters, school, house, polling booth, undertakers establishment and now as an art museum.

Significance:
Little stone school endowed as a free school for poor children by Zachariah Barrow.

Oldest educational building in Cumberland County. Served until advent of public supported learning.

Description:
This one and a half story stone building was built in 1810. The foundation is also of stone. Inside there is a chimney, the walls are of plaster and floors; of random width board. The roof is pitch and of shingles. The 1935 survey found iron strap hinges had been rivetted to each slab.