North Side School

This schoolhouse survived by luck. Local businessman Dan Dipert recognized it as Arlington's oldest surviving schoolhouse and gave it to the Arlington Historical Society, which brought it to Knapp Heritage Park. Today teachers bring elementary students for a day of classes in a room fitted with turn-of-the-century seating, blackboards and slate writing boards, so children can see how school worked before computers, central heating or air conditioning. The society calls it the park's most popular attraction, especially with children.

What the plaque says

North Side School After Arlington's North Side School at 433 North Center burned in 1909, this board and batten structure was built on the school grounds. Two grades met here for one term until a new brick building was erected. Contractor Joseph Crawley, who built this structure bought it and moved it to 304 South Pecan. It served as his office until 1924 when it became a storage shed. In 1977 Arlington's oldest existing schoolhouse was relocated here. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cedar Ridge Preserve — 11 mi
  A 633-acre Audubon Dallas preserve at the western edge of Dallas County, with about nine miles of trails through prairie, woodland and escarpment hills.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 13 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 14 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 15 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.

More markers nearby

• Jopling-Melear Log Cabin — steps away
• P.A. Watson Log House — steps away
• First United Methodist Church of Arlington — steps away
• First Baptist Church of Arlington — 0.3 mi