Forestdale School (Massachusetts)

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Forestdale School, also known as the Greenville School, is a small, historic one-room schoolhouse in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Built in 1878, it’s one of the few surviving district schools on Cape Cod and shows Greek Revival details, including gable end returns and transom windows above the two entrances.

The building is a single-story wooden structure with a front-facing gable roof and a brick foundation covered in concrete. A rear extension holds a kitchen and bathrooms. The main room still has its original wainscoting.

You’ll find it at 87 Falmouth-Sandwich Road (Massachusetts Route 130), just north of the Forestdale Fire Station.

The Forestdale area, once called Greenville, used the school until 1927, when district schools were consolidated. Afterward, the town leased it to the Forestdale Men’s Club for meetings into the 1960s. Following restoration, it briefly served as a branch library, a preschool, and a dancing school. Since 1980, it has been used by the local Boy Scouts as a meeting space.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.