Ceres School is a historic two-room

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building located at Ceres in

Allegany County, New York Allegany County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,456. Its county seat is Belmont. Its name derives from a Lenape word, applied by European-American settlers of Western New York State to ...

. It was built in 1855 and remodeled in 1893 with

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and Queen Anne style design elements. It is a one-story, gross-gabled frame building topped by a

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. It is a surviving example of a late 19th-century schoolhouse, which served students from both Pennsylvania and New York. The school closed following World War II and used as a community center. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying photographs''
/ref> It was listed on the

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in 2010.

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