The East District School in the town of Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich, Connecticut

Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 20th century. During the Civil War, Norwich once again rallied and saw the growth of its textile, armaments, and specialty item manufacturing...

 was built in 1798. It is located within the Norwichtown neighborhood and is a contributing property in the Norwichtown Historic District

Norwichtown Historic District

The Norwichtown Historic District is a historic district in the Norwichtown section of the town of Norwich, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. By then, the district was already a local historic district...

. The school on its own was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1970.

The school is "a good example of an eighteenth century schoolhouse, it has local historical significance as the place of Constance Sterry's evening school, and it is the building which the Society of Founders of Norwich Connecticut has chosen [in 1970] as the site of an Historic Research Center...."

The building has a gambrel

Gambrel

A gambrel is a usually-symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom on the building's upper level...

roof.

In 1970, it was unused.