Theodore Havemeyer, with assistance from Alfred Darling, financed the building and hired Dudley Newton to design and oversee construction.

[3] The schoolhouse was built in 1891 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 2008.

The second floor served as a community hall, and as a chapel used by members of the Dutch Reformed Church at Romopock.

The schoolhouse has been restored by the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference, for use as its permanent headquarters.

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