Throughout the country as rural schools closed and consolidation became the norm, most of the wooden one room schoolhouses were usually torn down and the land used for farming. A few exceptions resulted in the rural school being converted to residential use with very few still in existence today. The Browne school is one of the few in Milan township, DeKalb county, Illinois that still serves as a home.
Following the closure of the school in May of 1953, the DeKalb County Express published the school district's intent to hold an election on August 8, 1953 to decide whether to sell the Browne school property. The notice appeared on page 5 of the paper's July 12, 1953 edition.
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