Springfield Center Elementary School is a historic

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

located at Springfield Center in

Otsego County, New York Otsego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,524. The county seat is Cooperstown. The name ''Otsego'' is from a Mohawk or Oneida word meaning "place of the rock." History In ...

. It was built in 1958, and is a one-story, "L"-shaped,

Modern Movement Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, a ...

style school building. It is a steel frame building faced in brick and with a flat roof. It features long continuous bands of windows. The school closed in 1989, and the building houses the town court, offices, and library. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying photographs''
/ref> It was listed on the

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in 2011.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Modern Movement architecture in the United States School buildings completed in 1958 Schools in Otsego County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Otsego County, New York {{OtsegoCountyNY-NRHP-stub