It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas on May 6, 2005.

[2] Farmer Mathias Schmidt donated the land for a Crabapple school, earning the privilege by running a footrace with neighbor Crockett Riley who had also offered to donate land.

Area families built the native limestone structure with their own labor.

The 1878 school had a single classroom, with an adjoining room for the teacher living quarters.

A second limestone school was built in 1882 that also served as a Lutheran church, until the St. John's congregation erected its own building in 1887.