Click image to enlarge. Now empty, the Old Rock School is a local landmark in Springville, once providing classroom space for high school students. The school may be the largest surviving chert-rock structure in St. Clair County, representing a type of folk construction—the application of indigenous chert rock to a building’s façade, which appears to be unique to certain north and north-central Alabama counties. Constructed primarily during the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, many of these structures have today disappeared from the Alabama landscape. Discussion about tearing down the old school concerns many in Springville, who want their landmark to be saved and put to a new use. One promising option may be for the building to become a much-needed new location for the public library.
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