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°WCoordinates: 42°15′35″N 71°40′41″W / 42.25972°N 71.67806°W
Built 1860
Architect Elbridge Boyden
Architectural style Italianate
Governing body Private
MPS Worcester MRA
NRHP Reference # 80000542[1]
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.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,[1] at which time the building was used as a warehouse.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NRHP nomination for Ash Street School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-27.