Tuttle Square School
Tuttle Square School | |
Location in Massachusetts Location in United States | |
Location | Auburn, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°11′29″N 71°50′06″W / 42.1914°N 71.835°W |
Built | 1922 |
Architect | Meacham, Harry L. |
Architectural style | Bungalow/Craftsman |
NRHP reference No. | 02000129 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 8, 2002 |
The Tuttle Square School, now the Auburn Historical Museum, is a historic school building at 41 South Street in Auburn, Massachusetts. The single story two-room wood-frame building was constructed in 1922 to replace a smaller school on the site, in the face of increasing school population. The building's most prominent decorative feature is its Federal-style entry door surround, with pilasters supporting scrolled brackets, topped by a fanlight. The school served the Auburn public schools from 1923 to 1933. During the Second World War it was outfitted as a hospital in case of emergency, and briefly returned to use as a school between 1948 and 1953. Thereafter its primary purpose was to house school administrative office, and was finally vacated by the school administration in 1981. It then served as home to the Auburn District Nursing Association until about 1990. In 1999 the town voted to lease the building to the Auburn Historical Society for use as a museum.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
See also
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[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Tuttle Square School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
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- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Buildings and structures in Auburn, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Museums in Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Worcester County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs
- Massachusetts museum stubs