Marconi School
NW 23-20-23W,
Oakburn area

Designation Date: April 11, 1990
Designation Authority: The R.M. of Rossburn
Present Owner: The R.M. of Rossburn

While one-room schools built after World War I were, like their nineteenth century cousins, modest in size and appointments, the various design and construction developments that had attended them over just twenty years transformed them. At a school like Marconi, built in 1922, these changes are immediately apparent. The standardized design, produced by the Department of Education, was adapted from domestic styles of the day, which favoured a cottage look, and the placement of shingles (rather than horizontal siding) on the walls. Builder Frank Kennedy produced a solid building which, now restored, is used as a museum.