Lexington_High_School,_1875_restored.jpg

Photographer
Lewis, T. (Thomas R.)
Title

High school, 1875, site of Lord Percy's cannon, to protect retreating British troops, 1775 (Restored image from stereograph)

This building, the first purpose built Town Hall in Lexington, was erected by David Tuttle in 1847. The two story, Greek revival building with colossal columns and a pedimented entry was located at 1474 Massachusetts Avenue. The second floor was originally intended as a committee room, but the first Lexington High school opened in the space in 1854 and enrolled 30 students in the first class. The conditions were not ideal for a classroom, however, because of windows on only one side of the building and one stove to heat the whole room. When a new Town Hall was built in 1871, the school expanded and occupied the whole building. At a Town meeting in 1901, $55,000 was appropriated for the construction of a new High School on the same grounds, and in 1902 the Town voted to sell the Town Hall building to Mr. William E. Denham for $110 which he then had cut into two sections and moved to Vine Street to remodel into tenement houses. The pillars and columns from the old Town Hall building were salvaged and reused at the entrances of the new high school. In 1951 that building became Muzzy Junior High when a new high school was constructed. It is now the Muzzy Condominiums .
Dimensions 9 × 18 cm (3.5 × 7 in)
institution QS:P195,Q894583
Accession number
06_11_001028
Source Digital Commonwealth ; Restoration by Bruce C. Cooper (User: Centpacrr) Digital Image Services
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