Ash Street School (Worcester, Massachusetts)

Ash Street School
Location Ash St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°15′35″N 71°40′41″W / 42.25972°N 71.67806°W / 42.25972; -71.67806Coordinates: 42°15′35″N 71°40′41″W / 42.25972°N 71.67806°W / 42.25972; -71.67806
Built 1850[1]
Architect Boyden & Ball
Architectural style Italianate
MPS Worcester MRA
NRHP Reference # 80000542[2]
Added to NRHP March 5, 1980

The Ash Street School is an historic school building on Ash Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Italianate style school was built as part of a wave of school construction in the city between 1848 and 1855. It is a square three story brick building with a low hip roof. Each facade has four bays, separated by piers that rise to corbelling just below the roof line. It originally had a cupola, but that has been removed. At the time of its construction, the area where it stands was a densely populated neighborhood; it has since been largely redeveloped for industrial uses.[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,[2] at which time the building was used as a warehouse.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Howland, Henry J. The Heart of the Commonwealth: or, Worcester as it is. 1856.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Ash Street School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-27.


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