
So that his wife would have a place to teach Franktown children, Hubert Fonder and some neighbors erected this school along the banks of Cherry Creek using local rhyolite and pine. A cross gable joins two front-gabled wings, one of rubblestone and one half-timbered, flanking the side-lighted entrance. The stone gable end also has a transomed door centered in it, with the lintel inscribed “1883.” After closing as a school in 1949, it was restored in 1981 for community use.