“History On The Move: One-room schoolhouse en route to Faust Park”

AUTHOR: Jessica Meszaros
DATE: August 16, 2021

A 127-year-old one-room school cabin is getting a new home in Chesterfield.

A structure previously known as African School No. 4 in the Chesterfield School District is being relocated from its current location on private land on Wild Horse Creek Road, where it served as a one-car garage, to the Historic Village at Chesterfield’s Faust Park. According to St. Louis County, the property is being donated by Muwafaq Abdel Baset.

Along with its relocation, the structure is also slated to be restored via a collaborative effort by St. Louis County Parks and the St. Louis County Parks Foundation, a non-profit volunteer organization created to support and promote the facilities, programs, capital improvements and resources of the county’s parks system. The actual relocation, which will be accomplished by dismantling the structure, has a cost of an estimated $15,000, with an added $20,000 being sought for the restoration.