New Providence schoolhouse-turned-home blends best of old and new
This two-story brick home currently for sale at 52 Pennsy Road, New Providence, was a schoolhouse in the first half of the 20th century. With their fifth child on the way, Lin and Yvonne Stoltzfus had outgrown their New Providence home. They found their solution one street away in a brick structure that had already welcomed many children. After all, it spent the first half of the 20th century as a school. The Stoltzfuses knew the previous owners. “And we’re suckers for old houses,” Yvonne Stoltzfus says. Lin and Yvonne Stoltzfus stand in their New Providence home, which spent the first half of the 20th century as a schoolhouse. The latter is where Yvonne keeps two books that mention New Providence School: 2015’s “Lancaster County’s One-Room Schoolhouses and the History of the Common School Movement” by Mary Virginia Shelley and 1976’s “Now and Then in Providence Township” by Paul R.…
