A school teacher's lifelong passion for teaching pointed her and her husband, Peter, in the direction of buying an 1870 Klopp school house in Pennsylvania, which they then remodelled and turned into a cozy home.
The one-room school house is located in suburban Pennsylvania. Peter Masurak and his wife Tina lived in this reconstructed school house until her death in 2011.
According to Peter, his wife was obsessed with schools and had wanted to stay in a school house somewhere. This was her dream since she was still a child. She pursued teaching. So, they decided to buy this house to pursue her lifelong passion which was to teach and live in an old school house.
"She fell in love with the idea [of living in a school house. I wouldn't have had it any other way," he said.
He added that before they bought the property and remodelled it, they have been visiting old school houses for fun. This had been their passion and their hobby. After they visited the 1870 Klopp school house in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, and knowing that it was listed for sale, they immediately bought it. For them, it was a dream house.
Inside the house, there is one bedroom and bathroom, and includes a modern homey kitchen, living room and dining area. Although it sounded small, everything a couple needs could fit in the house.
Peter said, "[The blackboard] is part of the mystique about the house." He explained that if they would tear it apart, it's just wasting time and effort for nothing. The living room now was previously where the old desks were placed.
A lot of the previous details from the original school house remained like the windows, wood floors, steeple, wainscoting, and the old blackboard hidden behind the new brick walls in the 1870 Klop school house's original design.
