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parking lot and parking garage. The high school is an asymmetrical masonry structure, built mainly out of red brick with granite trim. It exhibits most of the elements typical of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, including large round-arch openings, bands of windows headed by stone lintels, and a four-story pyramidal tower. The East School is also of brick construction, but is considerably more plain, with a paired brackets in its gabled eaves, and a portico supported by paneled posts rising to rounded arches.
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The Old Rockville High School and East School are located in the commercial downtown area of Rockville, on the north side of School Street extending eastward from the junction with Park Street. The high school is located at the corner, while the East School is separated from that building by a
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The East School was built in 1870, during a period of rapid growth in Rockville caused by the post-Civil War economic boom, and was designed to relieve crowding pressure on smaller district schools. The high school was built in 1892, to a design by Francis Richmond of
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in 1981. The high school now houses school administration offices, and the East School houses court offices.
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are a pair of historic former school buildings at School and Park Streets in the
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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
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National Register of Historic Places in Tolland County, Connecticut
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Romanesque Revival architecture in the United States
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Old Rockville High School and East School is located in Connecticut
Old Rockville High School and East School is located in the United States
Rockville, Connecticut
41°52′08″N 72°26′52″W / 41.8688°N 72.4478°W / 41.8688; -72.4478
Francis R. Richmond
Italianate
Romanesque Revival
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Rockville
Vernon, Connecticut
Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register of Historic Places

Springfield, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Tolland County, Connecticut


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National Register of Historic Places
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