Garcia School
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Garcia School | |
 The Garcia School in 2013. | |
  Location in the state of Arizona | |
| Location | 245 N. Tegner Street, Wickenburg, Arizona, United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°58′15.40″N 112°43′56.07″W / 33.9709444°N 112.7322417°W |
| Built | 1905 |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002087 |
| Added to NRHP | April 1, 1982 |
The Garcia School is a historic school building in Wickenburg, Arizona, and is considered to be the best example of a brick one-room schoolhouse surviving in the state.[1]
The Garcia School, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse or the Garcia Little Red Schoolhouse,[2] was built of red brick in 1905 for the Wickenburg School District on land donated by a local pioneer named Don Ignacio Garcia, who is now considered to be the "father of Wickenburg education". It replaced a small wooden schoolhouse that was moved from Vulture City, Arizona, in 1895, and cost $1,600 to build.[3]
The Garcia School was used by students until as late as the 1970s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1982.[4] It was badly burned in a fire in 1978, but was restored in 1984[5] and used as a Community Bank of Arizona building until 2003, when it was donated to the Wickenburg Cultural Organization (WCO). It is now used as a local history museum, the office for the WCO, and by the Wickenburg Chamber Orchestra for musical education.[6]
An early photo of the students and the schoolhouse, c. 1910.
The Garcia School in 2014.
