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The Republican Schoolhouse, also known as Little White Schoolhouse or Birthplace of the Republican Party, is a historic former one-room schoolhouse now located at 1074 West Fond Du Lac Street in Ripon, Wisconsin. Built in 1853, it was designated a National Historic Landmark for its role in the 1854 founding of the Republican Party. [1]
RIPON – As of July 22, the Little White Schoolhouse is back on the National Register of Historic Places for its contribution as "the Birthplace of the Republican Party.". The schoolhouse moved ...
The Republican Party was launched in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Here's a look at how it happened and why.
The Little White Schoolhouse, in which the Republican Party was founded in 1854, is transported from the Ripon College campus to a site on the grounds of the Republican Education Foundation in 1852.
Most of Ripon's old downtown, [126] including the 1860/1890 Dodge and Manville Carriage Works, [127] the 1870 Wolcott and Kinsbury Jewelry Store, [128] the 1872 Italianate Pettibone dry goods store, [129] the 1905 Neoclassical Ripon Public Library, [130] the 1922 20th-Century Commercial-styled Kohl Hardware Company, [131] and the 1930 Art Deco ...
The Little White Schoolhouse of Ripon, original building standing in 1936. listed on the Wisconsin Registered Historic Places.. Meeting at a school house in Ripon on March 20, 1854, [7] some 30 opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act called for the organization of a new political party (to link their cause with the Declaration of Independence).
A one-third scale replica of the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon is heading to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention.
Little White Schoolhouse: Little White Schoolhouse. May 30, 1974 : Ripon Fond du Lac: Birthplace of the U.S. Republican Party. 22 ...