[2] It is a two-story, stone vernacular structure, capped with a gable roof.

On the front, carefully dressed stone voussoirs and keystones are used for the round arches for the main entrance and the window above.

The following year the Winneshiek County Historical Society acquired the building and operated a museum in it.

[2] The vast majority of Iowa's 19th-century schoolhouses were of frame or log constriction, followed by brick.

By 1874 at the peak of schoolhouse construction only 268 were stone, compared to 8,000 frame structures and about 650 that were brick.