Grove Street Elementary School - Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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BruceS
N 41° 59.918 W 071° 30.529
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Historic former elementary school in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Waymark Code: WM4ZE7
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2008
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The Grove Street Elementary School built in 1876 with an addition in 1885. The original building was designed by Providence architect E.L. Angell and built by William Weicker.
From the National Register Multiple Resource Area documentation pg 80:
"Grove Street Elementary School is well preserved example of the thoroughly modern schoolhouse of the 1870s, exhibiting all the design and technological earmarks of progressivism. Handsome, durable and relatively fireproof, carefully planned to provide maximum daylight and constant circulation of fresh air, equipped with indoor plumbing, indoor and outdoor play space and separate cloak rooms for boys and girls, and yard of blackboards and specially-designed classroom furniture, it exemplifies a major achievement of the day; the model environment for public education arrived at through experiment and quasi-scientific analysis."
After the 2000 school year the school was closed and it has since been converted into apartments.
Address:
312 Grove St.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island United States
02895
Web Site: [Web Link]
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