Program

NYS Historic

Subject

Education

Location

7092 Lagrange Rd, Perry, NY 14530, USA

Lat/Long

42.801879, -78.014451

Grant Recipient

Town of Covington Historical Society

Built around 1836, School House No: 18, also known as the LaGrange School, educated children from the towns of Covington and Perry until its closure in 1958. Following this, the school became The Harold L. Altoft Museum in 1973. A September 17, 1973 edition of the Buffalo Courier-Express explains:

The one-room schoolhouse across the road was dedicated as the Harold L. Altoft Museum to honor a former teacher in that school for 45 years of his 57-year career as an educator.

The museum also served as the headquarters of the Covington Historical Society for several years until 1998, when it was moved to the Silver Lake Pioneer Association, as described in a July 22, 1999 article featured in the Perry Herald:

A special high light of this year’s Pioneer Picnic Days is the opening of the new (to the Pioneer Grounds) Country School house which was relocated from LaGrange last fall and is being painstakingly restored by volunteers.