{{Short description|Historic schoolhouse in Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox building | name = Redstone School | native_name = | former_names = | awards = | image = File:Redstone School.jpg| | caption = | location = Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S. | address = | coordinates = {{coord|42.358650|-71.471215|display=inline,title}} | construction_start_date = | completion_date = {{Start date and age|1798|p=yes}} | inauguration_date = | demolished_date = | destruction_date = | architect = | landlord = | owner = | cost = | floor_area = | floor_count = 1 | references = | pushpin_map = | building_type = | architectural_style = | structural_system = | client = | current_tenants = | height = | other_dimensions = | structural_engineer = | services_engineer = | civil_engineer = | other_designers = | quantity_surveyor = | main_contractor = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | diameter = }}
The '''Redstone School''' is a one-room school located in the Wayside Inn Historic District of Sudbury, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Massachusetts - Sudbury, Redstone School |url=https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:1j92gm90n |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=www.digitalcommonwealth.org |language=en}}</ref> Built in 1798, it is believed to be the school to which Mary Sawyer took her lamb in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Crane |first=Ellery Bicknell |title=Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1 |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |year=1907 |pages=377}}</ref>
At the time of Sawyer's attendance at the school, it was located in Sterling, Massachusetts. Since before the American Civil War, the building had served as a barn for a local Baptist Church parsonage. In early 1926,<ref name=Herald>{{cite news |title=School Made Famous by Mary and her Lamb Reopened Today |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1927-01-17/ed-1/seq-11/ |access-date=27 May 2025 |work=New Britain Herald |date=7 January 1927 |location=New Britain, Connecticut |page=11}}</ref> the property was purchased by Henry Ford<ref name="Bryan 2002 p. 381">{{cite book |last=Bryan |first=F.R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9DrJz4egJEYC&pg=PA381 |title=Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8143-3684-7 |page=381 |access-date=2019-08-17}}</ref> and relocated around {{Convert|20|mi}} to the east, to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, where it stands today.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=Teaching in a one-room schoolhouse |date=2019-08-03 |url=https://www.wcvb.com/article/teaching-in-a-one-room-schoolhouse/28592473 |language=en |access-date=2022-11-22}}</ref> Ford operated the school for the benefit of children of his employees at the Wayside Inn.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Bryan |first=Ford R. |title=Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=2002 |pages=381}}</ref>
On January 17, 1927, the building reopened as a school,<ref name=Herald/> operating for a further twenty-four years, with an average of around sixteen students of grades one through four.<ref name=":1" /> It closed permanently in 1951.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
The school has windows on the right-hand side and at the rear; its blackboard occupies the interior of the left-hand wall.
<gallery> File:The Redstone School, school district 2, Sterling, Mass.jpg|In 1934 File:Redstone School (rear).jpg|Rear File:Redstone School (interior).jpg|Interior </gallery>
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1798 Category:1798 establishments in Massachusetts Category:Buildings and structures in Sudbury, Massachusetts Category:One-room schoolhouses in Massachusetts