16000 Callahan Rd., Reno, Nevada. County/parish: Washoe.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 04, 2011. NRIS 11000255.
Part of School Buildings in Nevada MPS (NRIS 64501001).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Galena Creek Schoolhouse in Washoe County, Nevada, in Reno, is a historic schoolhouse that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
It is located just south of Galena Creek near Callahan Park.
Nevada's most famous poet of the 1960s and 1970s, Joanne de Longchamps lived in the schoolhouse in 1975 and wrote a book of poetry named "The Schoolhouse Poems". In 1974 Joanne wrote “Three years ago Galen and I acquired (at an auction from the School District ) an acre of land at timberline. It lies under the dominion of Mount Rose and Galena Creek. In one corner of this acre is the schoolhouse – a one room building of hand-cut local stone. To my knowledge, this is the third schoolhouse to stand on or near this site. The first was built when the town of Galena thrived in the 1860s, a timbering town (no longer in existence) that supplied the mines of Virginia City."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63816303