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Kelsey Creek Schoolhouse

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The school, originally part of the Kelsey Creek School District, was consolidated into the Kelseyville School District in 1920. Once no longer hosting classes, it became a "social center" in 1947, run by the Kelsey Creek Community Club. In 1958, The Kelseyville
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entered a 50-year lease for the property where the schoolhouse sits, and in 2023 was granted $ 5,000 from Americana Corner's Preserving America Grant Program. LARA completed lead paint remediation in the building in May of 2023.
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The schoolhouse, which was still the property of the Kelseyville Unified School District, had historical significance, but also represented a liability given its fire risk and the suspected presence of
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proper, it was moved in 1882 on land donated by the Rickabaugh family, about a mile north, to its current location in the 3500 block of East Finley Road in
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In 2021, the district granted the schoolhouse to the Lucerne Area Revitalization Association (LARA) as the result of a
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that once housed the school bell. Originally built in 1871 on the Quercus Ranch, two miles north of
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currently features the 1871 date above the door, but 1980s pictures show 1882 instead.
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structure, approximately 22 feet wide and 36 feet long, topped with a small
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Finley, California
one-room school
Lake County, California
gabled
belfry
Kelseyville
Finley
Kelsey Creek
façade
Lions Club
fair
Lakeport
asbestos
lead paint
Ely Stage Stop
open-air museum
request for proposal
non-profit
"Kelseyville Unified School Board to discuss possible move of Kelsey Creek School"


"Kelseyville Unified School Board pursuing plan to give away Kelsey Creek Schoolhouse"



"Old school to become meeting hall"
Mauldin Files
"Officers, but no members"
Mauldin Files

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