Saving the Limerick School
Akron, New York
About Us
Friends of Limerick Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and restoring the historic Limerick School, a one-room schoolhouse that served our community from the 1800s until 1957 when the school district was centralized. After that, it became the Limerick Hall, hosting meetings for various groups including 4-H clubs, unions, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the Home Bureau.​
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As renovations are completed, the Friends of Limerick, Inc. will strive to play homage to not only the cultural side of the Limerick School but the Limerick Hall side, and will continue to add more Arts and Cultural programming throughout the year.
Thank you for your continued support in preserving this important piece of our community’s history.
Purpose
To preserve and maintain the Limerick School, a one room schoolhouse located in the Town of Newstead, New York, that will serve the residents of the Town of Newstead and surrounding area. The Limerick School will provide a place for children and other visitors to learn about early schooling and teaching instruction in the state. Then provide programming centered around cultural and art.
Vision
We hope to restore the Limerick School to enable children to once again walk the hard wood floor, sit at the desks, write on the chalk board and experience what a day was like in a one-room schoolhouse. Allow visitors to visit the school and reminiscent about days when they went to school there. Finally, offer a child's museum and summer arts program for youth.
Save it for them!
