Pine Street School (Northfield, Massachusetts)

Pine Street School
Location Northfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°42′32″N 72°26′50″W / 42.70889°N 72.44722°W / 42.70889; -72.44722Coordinates: 42°42′32″N 72°26′50″W / 42.70889°N 72.44722°W / 42.70889; -72.44722
Architect Augustus W. Holton
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 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]

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ School Board Journal July 1903: 30.
  3. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Pine Street School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
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