Pine Street School (Northfield, Massachusetts)
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| Location | Northfield, Massachusetts |
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| Architect | Augustus W. Holton |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000156[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 13, 2002 |
The Pine Street School is a historic schoolhouse at 13 Pine Street in Northfield, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1904, and represents a well-preserved specimen of an early 20th-century school building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
Designed by Westfield architect Augustus W. Holton in 1903,[2] the building is a 1+1⁄2-story Colonial Revival structure, built to replace a smaller schoolhouse that was overcrowded and in poor condition. On the first floor it has a large vestibule, with hanging hooks for student coats. Doors lead into two equally sized classrooms which still have original electrical fixtures, wooden bead-board wainscoting, and plaster walls. Stairs from the vestibule lead up to a third, larger classroom. The building was used as a schoolhouse from its construction until 1940, when a fire destroyed the town's Center School. The town then consolidated the elementary grades in a newly built Center School building. The Pine Street school building has served as the town museum since 1943.[3]
See also
- Northfield Main Street Historic District, just outside which the school sits
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Massachusetts
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ School Board Journal July 1903: 30.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Pine Street School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
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