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| Location | Oak Ave, 3.5 miles northwest of the entrance to Preparation Canyon State Park |
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| Nearest city | Moorhead, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 41°55′47.7″N95°57′12″W / 41.929917°N 95.95333°W |
| Built | 1884 |
| NRHP reference No. | 00001655 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 16, 2001 |
Mann School No. 2, also known as Sioux Township #2, is a historic building located west of Moorhead, Iowa, United States. Built in 1884, the building is a simple rectangular frame structure with a gable roof. Originally three bays long, an addition in the 1920s that added a cloak room and internal stairway to the basement, extended it one more bay. Located in the Loess Hills, this school differed from one-room schoolhouses on the prairie, in that it was located near the center of a cluster of families rather than at the center of four sections. [2] Parents of the students who were educated here took responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of the building and grounds. The building remained in use as a school until 1945 when the teacher expectantly left. Enrollment had been low to begin with so the district sent the students to a neighboring rural school and then to Moorhead. The building continued as a polling place after the school was formally closed in 1945. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]
