Shumway School House

The Shumway School House is a one-room brick schoolhouse built circa 1900 in the community of Shumway, located along Shumway Road approximately 11 miles north of Show Low. It replaced an earlier log meeting house from 1893 and was built from locally fired soft red brick.

Key contributors included chief carpenter Mr. Reynolds, masons George Gardener and his son Charles from Snowflake, and plasterer Neil Hansen of Lakeside. For fifty years, this small building was the hub of the Shumway community, serving as a school for grades one through eight, a church, social center, and venue for weddings and funerals.

The schoolhouse enjoyed total restoration during the 1990s and was dedicated on Memorial Day 2001 as Arizona’s only standing one-room brick schoolhouse. It features a bell steeple at the front entrance and student names from years past etched into the soft bricks. It is maintained by the Taylor/Shumway Heritage Foundation.