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Prospect Hill School

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62: 856: 48: 87: 224:. The school was built on the site of an earlier wood-frame school which was no longer adequate to support the school district's growing student population. It is made of red brick with white sandstone detailing. The hip roof was originally slate, but is now asphalt shingles. The school when it opened had eight schoolrooms and served 300 students. It represented the beginning of a change in the Westfield schools from wood-frame schoolhouses to modern buildings. 868: 400: 845: 94: 69: 483: 791: 786: 781: 414: 479: 459: 454: 449: 419: 469: 439: 341: 898: 474: 464: 444: 424: 249: 235:
The property then lay vacant and unused for fifteen years, despite numerous proposals for its use. The town finally accepted a proposal in 2005 to convert the school into an affordable housing complex. The school was listed on the
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With the town's student population growing, the school was expanded in 1919. The expansion retained the Colonial Revival style of the building, even though it gave it a completely new facade. Designed by
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts
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is a historic school building at 33 Montgomery Street in
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Prospect Hill School is located in Massachusetts
Prospect Hill School is located in the United States
Westfield, Massachusetts
42°8′3″N 72°44′46″W / 42.13417°N 72.74611°W / 42.13417; -72.74611
Augustus W. Holton
Malcolm B. Harding
Colonial Revival
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Westfield, Massachusetts
Augustus W. Holton
Malcolm B. Harding
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts


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