Cherry Spring School Open House

Description

Built in 1885. Pavilion built in 1935. Consolidated in 1962. During the school year, the stage area of the Cherry Spring School pavilion was converted into a classroom by securing moveable walls across the front of the stage. A colorful canvas stage curtain was purchased in the mid-1950's and was kept rolled up above the proscenium during the school year. Featuring a landscape scene surrounded by ads for local merchants, the curtain was lowered between scenes of school closing plays. The curtain is now on display in the recently restored and remodeled pavilion. Among the historic schools in Gillespie County, there are still six original curtains, and several of the merchants whose ads appear on those curtains are still in business today.