A celebration in the summer of 2007 was to commemorate the building’s 100 years of existence. The celebration, sponsored by the Hollywood Booster Club, was actually a day to honor and pay tribute to all one-room school houses, Booster Club member Bruce Johnson noted. His mother, Kathy Johnson was once a teacher at the District 76 school.

Among the former students in attendance were Clarence Hultgren (attended 1923), Ruth (Mielke) Dixon (1935-1938), and Virginia (Laumann) Goede (1925-1933).

Former teachers who attended the celebration were Marcella (Lynch) Lachermier (1944), Kathleen (McRath) Johnson (1950), and, the last teacher to teach at the school, Glenna Schmidt (1950 and 1967-1970).

The school served students for more than 60 years before it was dissolved. In the early 1970s, with student population dwindling and country schools closing, the district was dissolved into the Watertown School District.

The building which once had little feet scampering about, later had bigger shoes treading its floors as it was used as the town hall.

In the 1990s, a new town hall was built, and the small, white building that began as a country school sat empty.

However, activity has been brewing again as area residents have been and continue to renovate the old building.

The Hollywood Booster Club was instrumental in keeping this building in existence and in its restoration. In fact, the Hollywood Park and Restoration Board was established with a mission to restore the building.

The building holds fame. In 1993, it was pictured on the cover of the Jayhawks album called “Hollywood Town Hall.”

For the rights to use the school on the album cover, the Jayhawks donated $1,800 toward the restoration.

To keep the school memories alive, the building will be furnished like an old school with desks, a library table, and old pictures.