The Crain Hill School and Church, in Crain Hill, Tennessee, is a building dating from around 1870. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

It is a one-room weatherboarded gable roofed vernacular building, upon a wooden pier foundation which is covered with pressed metal. Simple decoration includes gable returns and molding around the main entry.

Crain Hill School and Church

It was built to serve as both a school and place of worship for inhabitants of the Rocky River Valley. Its last use as a schoolhouse was in 1927 when a new larger school was built further up the Rocky River Road. It continued to serve as a church until the mid-1900s.

Crain Hill School and Church

It was a one-room schoolhouse.

Crain Hill School and Church

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Schools in Tennessee

One-room schoolhouses in Tennessee

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee

National Register of Historic Places in Van Buren County, Tennessee

Buildings and structures completed in 1870

1870 establishments in Tennessee