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Millbury Street Head Start

Coordinates: 42°14′43″N 71°48′6″W / 42.24528°N 71.80167°W / 42.24528; -71.80167
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Ward Street School-Millbury Street Schoolhouse #4
Millbury Street Head Start is located in Massachusetts
Millbury Street Head Start
Millbury Street Head Start is located in the United States
Millbury Street Head Start
Location389 Millbury St.,
Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°14′43″N 71°48′6″W / 42.24528°N 71.80167°W / 42.24528; -71.80167
Arealess than one acre
Built1898 (1898)
ArchitectJ.W. Patston
Architectural styleRomanesque
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000488[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 5, 1980

The Millbury Street Head Start is a historic school building at 389 Millbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The building, a Romanesque brick structure built in 1898-99, was originally called Millbury Street Schoolhouse #4 and was later known as the Ward Street School. Designed by J.W. Patston, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] It now houses Head Start programs run under the auspices of the Worcester Public Schools.

Description and history

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The Millbury Street School is located southeast of downtown Worcester, on the east side of Millbury Street at Harlem Street in the Vernon Hill neighborhood. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, built out of red brick and covered by a hipped roof. The roof has wide side dormers, and a central projecting gable-ended section projects to the north (toward Harlem Street). At either end of the projecting section, rounded archways shelter recessed entrances. The building foundation is rock-faced granite, and it has sandstone trim elements.[2]

The building was designed by J. W. Patston and was built in 1898-99. It is the last of four similar schools to be built at the time in the city, and is the least altered of those that survive. At the time of its construction, the parcel on which it was built had three other schools on it, all of which were subsequently demolished by encroaching residential and highway development (the building is just east of Interstate 290.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Ward Street School-Millbury Street Schoolhouse Number 4". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-25.