Rough-faced blocks of rhyolite make Cantril School, atop Schoolhouse Hill on a full block with a playground, a showcase for the local stone. The first courses are the rare and more precious pink stone and the upper courses are the more common gray stone. Two stories tall, the building has an irregular plan, intersecting hipped roofs, and wide, bracketed eaves. The square three-story bell tower with paired, round-arched
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