Driving around Carver County with nothing but an 1880 map, Lou Longhenry kept to his mission: Find historic one-room schoolhouses. Results? “Not too many,” the San Francisco Township retiree said, ...

The district said it’s necessary to make classrooms bigger as schools transition away from lecture-style teaching.

The 70-year-old building is too high-maintenance and not flexible enough for students’ learning, the principal says.