CertainTeed Helps Restore Historic School to Former Glory as Part of New Cultural Arts Center
CANAJOHARIE, N.Y. — The original Canajoharie Academy — known today as the West Hill School — was built in rural upstate New York in 1824.
A prominent landmark of the village of Canajoharie, the school famously employed women’s suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony, who served as a teacher and head of the “female department” there from 1846 to 1851. The current building’s stone facade and distinct red roof, erected in 1892 by American architect Archimedes Russell in the Romanesque revival style, served as the site of multiple schools, until the building fell into disrepair in the 2000s.