Garcia School

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]

Garcia School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Garcia School in 2013.
Location in the state of Arizona
Location	245 N. Tegner Street, Wickenburg, Arizona, United States
Coordinates	33°58′15.40″N 112°43′56.07″W
Built	1905
NRHP reference No.	82002087
Added to NRHP	April 1, 1982

The Garcia School, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse or the Garcia Little Red Schoolhouse,[2] was built of red brick in 1905 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]

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  An early photo of the students and the schoolhouse, c. 1910.
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  The Garcia School in 2014.