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1024-0018 NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_7 Page1 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA DESCRIPTION LOCATION AND SITING OF THE SCHOOL The Tuttle Square School stands in the center village of the town of Auburn, Massachusetts. With a population of approximately 15,000, Auburn is situated in Worcester County near the center of the state. To the town's immediate north is the city of Worcester, the second largest city in New England Set at an angle on its lot at the corner of South and School streets, the school has a strong presence on both South and School streets (Illustration # 3). Large trees rise from a lot behind it (Photos # 1 & 2), creating a tall, leafy backdrop that lends additional status to the building and distinguishes it from its surroundings.
The building stands close to the rear property line. At either side are small areas of lawn. The major portion of open land around the building is at the front, with South and Schoolstreets at its perimeter. This area is now occupied by an expansive asphalt parking lot (Photo # 1) with a narrow strip of grass along the street frontage. Former students both in the 1920s and 1950s remember that the playground was at the rear of the building or at the rear and the south side of the building. The present parking lot would appear originally to have been maintained all or mostly as a lawn. With a lawn in front, the building would have offered much more of a public amenity to the neighborhood than it now does without it. NEIGHBORHOOD SURROUNDING THE SCHOOL The Tuttle Square School is located in a neighborhood of mostly early 200*-century, middle-class residences.
Shaded by large trees and provided with mature landscaping, this neighborhood has a well-established and comfortable look about it. Opposite the school to the north is a memorial dedicated to Chester P. Tuttle, for whom Tuttle Square is named. A pink granite monument dedicated to Tuttle is set on a small, grassy traffic island landscaped with maple trees and ornamental shrubbery. The park-like appearance of this green space makes an important contribution to the character of the neighborhood. Both the school and the memorial are major features of the neighborhood, complementing one another by their placement and by their mutual high visibility at the intersection. DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING The Tuttle Square School is a one-story, center-entry, single-pile, hip-roofed building designed in the Arts and Crafts style.
On the main façade, a strip of six 6/1 windows is arrayed on either side of a projecting gable-roofed center pavilion with a Colonial Revival style doorframe at its center. The north and south ends of the building have no windows or other openings. Eaves are broadly projecting with exposed rafters at the eaves. The center gable on the main façade is trimmed with a plain bargeboard supported by pairs of stick brackets. The foundation is of rounded fieldstone and the exterior walls are of wood shingle. The most elaborate decorative feature of the building is the Federal Classical-style doorframe at the main entrance (Photo # 3). Flanking the door are pilasters with narrow, groove-like fluting. They each support a strongly projecting scroll bracket, trimmed with a carved anthemion motif. Above them rises a labeled, round-arched overdoor.
Within the doorframe, and immediately above the door, is a fanlight treated as a peacock-tail design trimmed with an oval sunburst (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-2 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number / Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA patera at the center of the radius. The door has a nine-pane glazed top and a pair of vertical panels at the bottom. Alterations have occurred along the rear façade of the building to adapt the building to non-school use. For convenience, a low, one-story enclosure has been built around the exterior stairway to the basement (see Illustrations # 1 and 2). To adapt the building to the practicalities of office use, three of the four original rear doors in this façade have been converted to windows.
As it was originally arranged, the rear façade had a pair of doors at the center (Illustration # 1), which gave access to the two restrooms from the rear of the building. There was also a door on the north end of the façade mirroring the position as the surviving door at the south end. These two doors provided direct access to each classroom from the rear of the building. The rear entrances were particularly convenient since play areas were located at the rear and the south side of the building. The locations of the former doors can be identified as the lower windows (the tops of those windows are lower than other windows) (Photo # 4). The rear alterations have turned what was a largely symmetrical rear façade into a distinctly asymmetrical one.
Since the rear of the building is not visible from the street (see Photos # 1 and 2), these alterations have little effect on the overall historic appearance of the building. The 1922 architect's plans for the school indicate that the exterior walls of the wood frame building were originally finished in stucco. The stucco finish was removed and replaced by the present wood shingle in 1953. Failure of the stucco had caused moisture to enter the walls, causing rot. The present wood shingle, despite its 1950s date of application, is an appropriate exterior finish for the Arts and Crafts style of the building and for its1920s date of construction (see Illustration # 6 showing a residential building of the same period and style and Illustration # 5 of the West Auburn School addition of the same period).
Small windows that originally flanked the main entrance were covered survival of their interior trim on the west walls of the two closets in the entry hall. A pair of lantern-like lighting fixtures necessary to determine whether or not these lighting fixtures ever actually existed here. Illustration # 2 shows the plan of the building as it appears today. Illustration # 1shows the original plan. The current plan consists of a central section composed of an entry hall with a kitchen and two restrooms behind it. On either side is a former classroom. Although the classrooms are now subdivided into several smaller areas (later partitions are indicated on Illustration # 2 with a broken line), the original door and window frames, doors, window sash, bookcases, cloak closets, and pressed metal ceilings all survive in good condition.
Hardwood floors, presumably in good condition, are covered with wall-to-wall carpet. Plaster, probably original, survives on the upper portions of the walls of the rooms, while modern paneling has been applied over the lower section of the walls. It is possible that the newer paneling covers tongue and groove wood wainscoat. The possibility of finding such a wainscoat is suggested by its survival in the entry hall closets. The interior subdivisions described above appear to be removable with relatively little damage to the surviving original materials. (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7/8 Page_3/1 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Archaeological Description While no ancient Native American sites are recorded on the school property, sites may be present. Two sites are recorded in the general area (within one mile). Environmental characteristics of the property indicate the presence of locational criteria (slope, soil drainage, distance to wetlands) that are favorable indicators for some types of prehistoric sites. The school is located on well-drained level to moderately sloping topography within 1000 feet of an unnamed pond and tributary stream of Stone Brook. The area lies within the Blackstone River drainage. In general, however, the potential for locating ancient Native American resources on the nominated property is low.
Construction impacts related to the school and asphalt parking area on the relatively small lot (less than one-half acre) have adversely impacted any prehistoric resources that were originally present. A low potential also exists for locating historic archaeological resources on the Tuttle Square School property. Current historical and cartographic sources indicate the school parcel was undeveloped prior to construction of the present school in 1922. Although a school has been present in the general locale since the mid-18"* century, the previous school, a one- room school, originally stood across from the Tuttle School on a landscaped traffic island at the intersection of South and School Streets. (END) 8. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE The Tuttle Square School is significant in the history of the Town of Auburn for its role in public education and public health and medicine.
Its two-room size is representative of the small early 20t century schools built in Auburn neighborhoods before the consolidation of the town's many geographically scattered schools into fewer more centralized multi-classroom buildings. Although several other two-room schools once existed in the town, this is the only one to survive today. Unlike the several other surviving former one-room Auburn schools, the Tuttle Square School still stands on its original site, with most of its original features and its classrooms intact. The existing former one-room schools, (continued) NPS Form 110-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 8 Page_2 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA including the one that the Tuttle Square School replaced, have been converted to residential use as parts of larger dwellings. Architecturally, the building is significant as a well-preserved example of the Arts and Crafts style that was widely popular in the United States during the early 20" century. It is also of interest as an example of the early work of the Worcester architect, Harry L. Meacham. Early History of Public Education in Auburn The Town of Auburn (originally known as Ward) was incorporated in 1778. The following year, 200 pounds were set aside for schooling and the town was divided into five school districts, or squadrons.
The first mention of the names of the squadrons was in 1789 when they were listed as: Sutton Squadron, Leicester Squadron, North and South Squadron on Prospect Hill, Pakachoag, and Deacon Stone's Squadron. The Center School (the 18th century predecessor to the Tuttle Square School) was included in the Sutton Squadron. A new squadron in the southeast section of town was formed in 1790. The sites of six schools can be seen on the 1870 atlas map of Auburn. History of the Site of Tuttle Square School A school building is said to have stood in the general locality of the present Tuttle Square School for 150 years or longer. The first school to have been built at this location served the northwest portion of the town of Sutton before that sector became part of Auburn. Its date of construction is not presently known, however, it may not have been built any earlier than the mid-18 century.
The Town of Sutton did not take action to establish its schools until 1730. Even then, it did not build any schoolhouses immediately, but instead, the town's schools were held in private homes for some time. This early school, or possibly a later school building on the same site, was included in the territory that was incorporated as the Town of Ward in 1778. That school became the new town's Center School. The 1898 Worcester County atlas indicates that the earlier school at this location stood in the middle of the intersection of South and School streets. It appears that it was located on the, then slightly larger, landscaped triangle where the monument to Chester P. Tuttle now stands (see sketch map and Illustration # 3). Lillian Koehler, a former student who attended classes in both the earlier school building and in the present building, has confirmed this fact.
She remembers the schoolyard's being surrounded on three sides by dirt roads. The small size of that original lot is probably attributable to its early date. 18th century school lots were notoriously small, often consisting of nothing more than inconvenient corner lots or otherwise useless pieces of land. The old one-room school building was left standing in its original location until after the completion of the new school. Mrs. Koehler remembers taking her schoolbooks and supplies with her from the old building to the new one. She says that the teacher told the children to take their coat hooks as souvenirs. The old one-room school was then moved away to a new site and adapted for use as part of a dwelling (Illustration # 4, MHC # 80). It still stands at 12 Coolidge Street in Auburn.
The lot upon which the present building stands was given to the town by the Stone family, specifically for the construction of the new District # 1 School. The 1898 atlas map shows that the land that was to become the lot for the new school was the northernmost part of a larger parcel owned by J. B. Stone. At that time, except for several buildings facing on Stone (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 110-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page__3 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Street, the rest of the parcel northward to School Street was completely undeveloped.
Further research is necessary to understand the sequence of the development of the Stone property and whether the school was built before or after development of the previously undeveloped parcel had begun. The Tuttle Square School and Auburn in the Early 20" Century The Tuttle Square School was built in 1922 as the District # 1 School or the Auburn Center School. After the opening of the Mary D. Stone School in the town center in 1929, it was known as the South Street School. Since it was used at times to house the overflow from overcrowded classrooms in other buildings, it was also known as the South Street Annex. It was also known popularly as the Tuttle Square School because of its location on Tuttle Square. Tuttle Square was named in honor of Chester P. Tuttle, a World War I field artilleryman, who died in France in 1918.
Tuttle was the only soldier from Auburn to die in World War I. His memorial stands across from the school on a landscaped traffic island at the intersection of South and School streets (Illustration #3). The local Veterans of Foreign Wars post is also named for him. The one-room public school that was replaced by the Tuttle Square School stood on the same triangle of land (apparently somewhat larger than it is today) where the Tuttle monument now stands. The Tuttle Square School was built during a period when the inhabitants of Auburn were struggling to accept the long- established fact that their town was no longer a small rural community. The town was run as if it were still rural; yet, in reality, over 80% of the population had already become "non-agrarian" by 1895.
At the beginning of the 20" century, the majority of the population of the town consisted of first, second, or third generation Americans who worked in the town's two large textile mills or who worked in nearby Worcester. They were mostly French-Canadian or Irish in ethnic origin and Roman Catholic in religion. Although most of this group was fully integrated into the town's economy, some having lived here as long as fifty years, few were registered voters and few participated in local politics. Anglo-Saxon, Protestant families, who had lived here for generations, held the political power. Either working farmers or emotionally attached to their agrarian past, they were both fiscally conservative and less affected in many ways by the changing needs of the town than were the newer arrivals.
At the beginning of the 20* century the town had no police department, no fire department, no public water supply, and few paved roads. Only one of the town schools had more than one room and there was no high school. Yet the opening of Worcester trolley lines through Auburn in 1901 and 1902 encouraged rapid suburban growth of the town. The early 20" century growth of Auburn reflected that of the adjoining city of Worcester during the same period. Undergoing industrial prosperity between 1891 and 1917, Worcester experienced a doubling of its population and an accompanying residential building boom. The city's population growth quickly put development pressure on outlying towns like Auburn. (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 8 Page_ 4 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA The town's population grew from 1,621 in 1900 to 3,281 in 1915. During this period, a series of new subdivisions began to appear in the northern section of town, nearest Worcester. People who bought houses in these subdivisions mostly worked in Worcester and had a more urban outlook than did the longtime residents of the town. Most of their social and economic connections were also in the city. Having lived previously in Worcester or in other urban communities, they expected the modern conveniences and urban municipal services that were typical of the day. The growth of this sector of the population brought about a demand for public services and municipal infrastructure that reached a crisis point in the very year the Tuttle Square School was being built.
At the same time that Auburn's services and school system were under pressure to expand, the region was also experiencing growing pains. In the adjoining city of Worcester the public schools were feeling population pressures. During a period of only ten years, between 1920 and 1930, twelve new schools were built in Worcester while thirteen additions were made to existing schools. Early 20" Century Efforts at the Modernization of the Auburn Public Schools During the 19" century the Town of Auburn had been extremely parsimonious in the construction and maintenance of its schools. This habit of frugality seems to have been politically even-handed and apparently did not unfairly shortchange some districts while providing others with more up-to-date, better-equipped, and better-maintained buildings.
There is no evidence that the school buildings in the predominantly "old settler" neighborhoods in the town center, West Auburn, and Pakachoag were any better than the others. In fact, overcrowding in the mill villages of Stoneville and Pondville had begun to cause greater expenditure there while attention to the Center School lagged The rapid growth of the town's population during the early 20# century soon clashed with the traditional manner in which Auburn's public schools were operated. By 1900 there was talk of modernizing the town's school system and consolidating its one-room neighborhood schools into two larger, multi-classroom schools. Building a high school was also discussed. Consolidation was being promoted nationwide during the early years of the 20* century as a better education policy. Yet, the old system of neighborhood schools won out in Auburn.
It was decided to build a series of new two- and three-room schools. This plan was chosen even though there were those who argued that this was a shortsighted expenditure that unwisely duplicated facilities without adequately providing for the educational needs of the children. In carrying out this effort, new schoolhouses were built during the first twenty years of the century on Rochdale Street; Burnett Street; Cedar Street; in Pondville; on Malvern Road at Jerome Avenue; and on Southbridge Street. In 1919 the Crowl Hill School was closed after the poorly maintained building failed to pass a state inspection. That left only the Center, West Auburn, and Pakachoag schools unimproved by that date.
Despite the recommendation for school consolidation that had been made repeatedly over the years by the Auburn School Committee, popular preference for neighborhood schools created strong resistance to such a change. The Town of Auburn was operating twelve neighborhood schools in 1919. Most of them provided only one or two rooms. Two schools in more populous sections of the town were exceptions. The Boyce Street School had three rooms and the Stoneville School had five. Despite the gradual addition of new school buildings over the previous years, the schools (continued) NPS Form 110-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 5 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA were still severely overburdened.
For example, 114 students in grades five though eight were taught in two classrooms in the town hall. The one-room Center School on South Street accommodated 46 pupils in grades one though four. Other neighborhoods also had large numbers of children of mixed grade levels (grades one through six) in one-room schoolhouses. Outside the town center, the number of pupils in other one-room schools ranged from a low of 19 at Crowl Hill School to highs of 36 at Pakachoag, 44 at West Auburn, and 52 at Elm Hill. In schools in certain of the most overcrowded neighborhoods, such as Stoneville, it was necessary to run two separate sessions per day in order to accommodate all of the students. Although all of these classrooms held students of more than one grade, and double sessions were necessary in some, most children were kept in their own home neighborhood districts.
Tuttle Square School Caughtin the Midst of a Policy Change The Tuttle Square School was built in 1922 to replace the old one-room Center School (Illustration #4). At the same time the West Auburn School was enlarged with two additional rooms (Illustration #5). These two school construction projects were the final efforts in what has been called by Auburn historian, John Hartwell, "a sincere but shortsighted and ultimately futile program to address problems related to Auburn's rapid growth at the turn of the 20# century." In February of 1923, citizens exasperated with the inadequacies of the town's services and infrastructure voted "that the town of Auburn as a whole be annexed to the City of Worcester." Shocked by the vote, the power structure of the town acted quickly. Reforms were passed to make up for the municipal shortcomings.
As part of this effort, decisions were made to build large, modern, multi-room brick schools and to phase out most of the small wood frame neighborhood schoolhouses despite their relatively recent dates of construction. Changes could not be made quickly enough to avoid continued overcrowding of the town's classrooms for some time. In 1925 conditions were still similar to those reported in1919. Overcrowding of Auburn's schools was exacerbated by the fact that during the same period that the town was beginning to take remedies to its inadequate school facilities, the population continued to grow rapidly. Between 1915 and 1940 it more than doubled, climbing from 3,281 to 6,629. Yet, the rise in population kept the pressure on for improved school facilities, so that by 1929 three new schools had been completed and put into service.
All were substantial, architect-designed, brick buildings built in the Classical Revival and Colonial Revival styles that were popularly used for school buildings at the time all across the United States. The Julia Bancroft School on Oxford Street and the Mary D. Stone School in the town center both had eight classrooms. The four- classroom Pakachoag School was built with the possibility of expansion by the addition of four more rooms on an eventual second floor. In addition to the regular classrooms included in all of these three schools there were also meeting halls and rooms for manual training classes. Both of those features were typical of up-to-date schools of the day. A newspaper article covering the dedication of the Mary D.
Stone School proudly proclaimed the advances that had been made in the town's school facilities: "With three new up-to-date school buildings Auburn ranks high in the state and nation when compared with towns of her size as far as graded schools are concerned." (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 8 Page_ 6 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA These three new, larger schools eased the situation, although they still did not provide enough rooms to allow the ideal of a separate classroom for every grade in every school. In 1929 twenty-one classrooms were devoted to a single grade, while five rooms had two grades, and the one-room Maywood School had three grades in a single room.
In that same year it was also possible to abandon double sessions in Auburn schools. The town was finally able once again to provide a seat for every child in its schools for the full day. Gradually, the small neighborhood schools were closed as additional appropriate facilities were provided for the elementary grades. A town high school was longer in coming. Auburn continued to pay tuition to the City of Worcester, so its students could attend high school there, until the opening of Auburn High School, built in 1935. Tuttle Square School as an Auburn Public School The totalcost to build and furnish the Tuttle Square School was $12,499.86, fourteen cents under the appropriated amount of $12,500. According to the 1923 Building Committee final report, the fee paid to the architect, Harry L. Meacham, was $573.01. L.O. Irish, was paid $4,009.00 for carpentry work.
During the same era, Irish is said to have been responsible for building many of the houses in the surrounding Tuttle Square residential neighborhood. School Department reports also show that he was responsible for carpentry work on several other town schools during the early 20 century. The Tuttle Square School was equipped with two classrooms, an entry vestibule, separate restrooms for both boys and girls; a water fountain; electric lights; and coal-fired, hot air heating. Each classroom had a "wardrobe" (materials storage space?) and a built-in a bookcase. It is unclear whether the entry vestibule served as a cloakroom or whether the closet in each classroom, called a "wardrobe" in the architect's plans, served as the cloakroom.
The life of this building as a regular public school was relatively brief, since the town changed its policy toward neighborhood schools almost as soon as its construction was completed. The school seems to have opened in the fall of 1923 and to have continued in operation until about 1933. The recollections of students who attended the school during that period indicate that, during the early years of its operation, grades one through three were held in the southern room and grades four and five in the northern room. Grades six through eight were held in the Town Hall until 1929. By about 1927-1928 the fifth grade had apparently also been moved elsewhere, since there were only two grades in each classroom at Tuttle Square -grades one and two in the south room and grades three and four in the north room. School Department reports list Lucia M.
Field and Estelle Miller as teachers in the school from the fall of 1923 through the spring of 1928. From the fall of 1928 though 1932 it appears that there was only a single teacher in the building. Gertrude Loring apparently taught a mixed first and second grade class, presumably in a single room of the two-room school. During 1932-1933, the final year of the school's operation, there were individual teachers for each of the two grades. Miss Loring taught the first grade and Ida Yoffee taught second grade. With two teachers on staff, both rooms were certainly in use that year. By about 1934 classrooms in the town's newly built schools had apparently provided enough space so that the Tuttle Square School could be closed down permanently as part of the effort to consolidate the town's elementary schools.
(continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 8 Page " OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Consolidation and the Disposition of the Town's Decommissioned Schools By 1940, the last of the town's one- and two-room schools had been closed. Several of them were still owned by the town and vacant. The school report for the year ending 1936 noted that the windows of the Tuttle Square School had been boarded up. However, the town clearly continued to maintain the building, since the following year it was "painted outside two coats." The 1941 school report included a recommendation to sell three old schoolhouses that had not been used for nearly six years.
Reasons given for recommending the sale were the cost of insurance and upkeep and the fact that they were outmoded. It was noted: "... the day of small one-room school houses has gone by. No parent wishes his or her child to attend such a school...." Yet the report concluded that the Tuttle Square School was still useful to the School nearby on Church Street. Further research is necessary to understand how many other neighborhood schools were retained and exactly what role they played in the overall operation of the town's schools. It is assumed that not only the Tuttle Square School but also others served as safety valves for the eventual future overcrowding of the new consolidated schools. A ca. 1971 newspaper article notes the upcoming closing of the three-room Boyce Street School (now no longer standing) built in 1908 and enlarged about 1918.
The fact that it was still in operation at such late a date, indicates that the Tuttle Square School was not the only one of the old neighborhood schools to have found ongoing usefulness many years after the opening of the larger consolidated schools. Later Uses of the Building After its original closing as a neighborhood school in the 1930s, the Tuttle Square School building was usefully occupied for many years, either by the Auburn School Department or by interests supported by the Town of Auburn. During World War II the town set up a "Base Hospital" in the Tuttle Square School to be used in case of sabotage or air raids. It was described as being "equipped with complete hospital supplies, an operating room, and twenty hospital beds." After the war, in 1947, the building was adapted to house the offices of the Auburn School Department.
However, one room in the building was still kept available for eventual classroom use. From 1948 to 1953, during a renewed period of school overcrowding after World War II, that room was used for first grade classes. It is unclear whether the school department offices continued to be housed in the building during this period since a 1949 student recalls that two classrooms were occupied in that year, with the first grade in the south room and the second grade in the north room. After an addition was completed for the Mary D. Stone School in about 1954, the building was no longer needed for overflow classes. While it continued to be used as school department offices during this period, part of the space was still reserved for a classroom. Special education classes were held here apparently as recently as the 1970s.
The school department vacated the building in 1981, when its offices were moved to larger quarters in the former Randall School. From 1983 through most of the 1990s the Tuttle Square School served as offices for the Auburn District Nursing Association. Established in 1919 and partially supported by the town from its beginning, this organization provides local families with low-cost health services, home health care, and visiting nurses. From 1919 until 1979 the nursing association had its offices in the Auburn Town Hall. In 1983, after a few years of renting office space from the (continued) NPS Form 110-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 8 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Pakachoag Community Church, the organization came to an agreement with the town to rent the Tuttle Square School for its offices at a cost of one dollar per year. The association was responsible for the cost of heat, electricity, water, and reimbursement to the town for insurance. After the space in the school building became too small for its operations, the nursing association moved to larger facilities that it purchased at another location. Recent History of the Building In the late 1990's, the building stood vacant for several years. Then, in 1999, a unanimous vote at town meeting approved its lease to the Auburn Historical Society for use as an Auburn history museum. The society is currently making plans to restore and adapt the building for its new use.
Like the nursing association, the historical society has agreed to pay rent to the town of one dollar per year. Architect Harry L. Meacham (ca. 1884-1957), a Worcester architect, designed the Tuttle Square School. Born in Worcester, the son of Charles and Ella (Kelly) Meacham, he married Elizabeth Mountjoy. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Association of Registered Architects and was president of the Worcester Society of Architects and Engineers. He was treasurer of the Millbury Kiwanis Club, Master of the Millbury Grange, a member of the Worcester Central Pomona Grange, the Worcester Grange and the state and national Granges. Relatively little is known about Meacham's career. According to his obituary, he was the architect for St. Joseph's Abbey, a picturesque monastery complex built in 1951 for Trappist monks near Worcester, in Spencer, Massachusetts.
It also credits him with having "designed and supervised construction of many schools, churches, manufacturing plants and offices throughout New England." The Massachusetts Public Safety Records Index lists Meacham as the designer of three projects in Auburn, all done at about the same time. In 1922 and 1923 he designed not only the Tuttle Square School, but also the West Auburn School addition and the parish house for the First Congregational Church. Also in 1922, he designed the original section (now altered) of Chaffins School in Holden, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Historical Commission MACRIS database listing credits him as the architect of the Federated Church of Charlton, Massachusetts of 1940. Nothing is known of Meacham's architectural or engineering training.
Since his obituary does not mention degrees from any institutions of higher learning, he may have gotten much of his training on the job. Listings in Worcester city directories suggest that Meacham started as a draftsman for the New England Power Company and Connecticut River Power Company at 35 Harvard Street in Worcester around 1920. The following year he was employed as a draftsman for the engineering firm of Samuel H. Pitcher Company at 44 Front Street in Worcester. In 1922 the city directory listed him as an architect for the first time. In that year his business address was the same as that of the Pitcher Company and Pitcher listed itself not simply as "engineers," as it had previously, but, instead, as "engineers and architects." Presumably Meacham was the architect in the firm, however it is not clear what the relationship was.
Plans for the Tuttle Square School drawn by Meacham during the period that he would seem to have been associated with Pitcher are credited (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA entirely to him, with no reference to Pitcher. The alliance with Pitcher, if it ever existed, was short-lived. By 1924 Meacham was working on his own, listed as an architect at 571 Main Street. The 1929 city directory lists him as an architect and engineer. By 1940 his firm was known as Harry L. Meacham Associates, architects and engineers. About 1946 Meacham moved his office to his home in Millbury, Massachusetts, where he had lived for most of his career.
Further research is necessary to develop a larger sampling of Meacham's work. Since so few of his buildings have yet been identified, it is not possible at the present time to make judgments as to the characteristics, quality, or development of his work. The Tuttle Square School and the West Auburn School addition completed a short time later were clearly among his earliest designs, since he only began advertising himself as an architect in 1922. The Arts and Crafts Style The Tuttle Square School is a well-preserved example of the Arts and Crafts style, a style that was widely popular in the United States during the first three decades of the 20** century. The Arts and Crafts style evolved from the Gothic Revival style in England during the mid- and late-19" century.
With its origins in the work of designer William Morris and architect Philip Webb, it was based on an aesthetic of simple design celebrating the merits and originality of the handcrafted architecture and decorative arts of the pre-industrial period. In the United States, the Arts and Crafts style was made widely popular by The Craftsman, a magazine published by furniture maker, Gustave Stickley, between 1900 and 1916. Almost stark in its simplicity, the American version of the style was characterized by low gable or hip roofs, bargeboards, with exposed rafters projecting under broad eaves. More often than not, early 20th century American examples of the style forsook handcrafted elements for machine-made and sometimes even pre-fabricated, machine-made components. A distinctive feature of the style was a focus on architectural texture.
Characteristic of the Arts and Crafts style is the ornamental use of highly textured stonework, the contrasting textures of plain board trim or clapboards against wood shingle, and also the textural effect of stucco exterior finish. These textural effects are part of the Tuttle Square School. Here highly textured stonework is seen in the foundation. Smooth bargeboards and window trim contrast with the rough siding (now wood shingle but originally stucco -- both popular Arts and Crafts exterior finishes). Tuttle Square School, Stucco and Wood ShingleFinish and the Arts and Crafts Style The selection of masonry-like stucco as the original finish of the Tuttle Square School may have been intended to reflect the cultural substance of the town center and the symbolic role that it holds in the life of the community.
Stucco was a popular choice for Arts and Crafts style buildings. Derived from the stucco parging that was often used in England on buildings of the medieval period, it was widely used for this style both in England and in the United States. The rough texture of stucco-finished exterior walls was chosen both for its "natural" appearance and for its substantial masonry-like quality. Large stucco houses, many with Classical style trim of the sort used for the main entrance of the Tuttle Square School, can be seen today in the most elegant early 20"* century residential neighborhoods in city of Worcester. NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 8 Page 10 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA By the early 20" century, Classical style and other more exotic elements were often combined with the highly stylized medieval forms and details that were typical of the Arts and Crafts style. As was characteristic of much of the 1920s period residential architecture in the New England region, the Tuttle Square School combines seemingly conflicting rustic and Classical elements to create a comfortable look with a twist of traditional elegance. Here the refined Classical style doorframe contrasts with the Gothic-inspired rustic exposed rafters and stick brackets, and with the rough finish of the original stucco exterior (now rough wood shingle siding). Stucco was popular during the early 20t* century period for other styles as well, including Tudor, Mediterranean, Northern European Picturesque, and English Cottage.
Not only was this material widely used for dwellings during this period, but it was also often used for schools (Illustration # 7). Several stucco-finished school buildings were built in Worcester during the early 20 century. Two examples are the Thorndyke Road School, 1927 and Becker College, ca. 1920s, both in the Arts and Crafts style. The wood shingle that later replaced the original stucco finish of the Tuttle Square School was also widely used in the United States for buildings in the Arts and Crafts style. Wood shingle was chosen for use with the Arts and Crafts style for its "honest" and unassuming character and its inherently American derivation. Wood shingle is a native material that was used in early American dwellings, especially along the New England coast.
The use of wood shingle for the Arts and Crafts style seems to have flowed naturally from its use for the earlier Queen Anne and Shingle styles that were popular in New England during the late 19t century. The almost Bungalow-like appearance and the rustic Arts and Crafts trim of the Tuttle Square School are as well suited to the present wood shingle finish as they were to its original stucco finish. Design of Tuttle Square School in the Context of American School Architecture of the Day The style, design elements, and interior features of the Tuttle Square School are representative of public schools of its day. Like designs for small schools seen in architectural plan books of the period, the Tuttle Square School is built on a simple rectangular plan with a hip roof to give it an imposing form and with an elaborate Classical treatment of the main entrance.
Plan books also show that the almost residential appearance of the Tuttle Square School was also common to small schools (see Illustration # 7). Both its residential character and the affinity of its form to popular American examples of the Arts and Crafts house can be seen by comparing it to dwellings of the period, such as the one seen in Illustration # 6 built from a Sears, Roebuck ready-to-build Arts and Crafts house kit. Early 20" century school plan books also called for practical features that are found as major elements of this building. They include a bank of large windows on one side of the classroom (Photos # 1 and 2), oriented either to the east or the west and equipped with window shades; built-in bookcases (Photo #5); cloakrooms (Illustration # 1); and water fountains (Illustration # 1).
The pressed metal ceilings seen here (partially visible in Photo # 5) are another feature often used for school buildings during the late 19th and early 20h centuries. Comparisons Between the Tuttle Square and West Auburn Schools Almost simultaneously with the construction of the Tuttle Square School, an addition to the West Auburn School (no (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 8 Page_11 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA longer standing, Illustration # 5, MHC # 137) was made. Designed by the same architect, Harry L. Meacham, the addition gave the one hundred West Auburn School a new main façade (Illustration # 5) that was similar to that of the recently completed Tuttle Square School.
The new front section was a one-story, center-entry, single-pile, hip-roofed building with a projecting, gable-roofed center pavilion. It appears to have followed the same plan as Tuttle Square, with one classroom on either side of a central entry vestibule. Trimmed with Classical features, including corner pilasters, friezes, and gable returns, it had as its major decorative feature a Classical-style pedimented doorframe at the main entrance. Although different in design from the one at Tuttle Square, the doorframe had the same ennobling effect on the overall appearance of the otherwise very simple design of the building. Unlike the original stucco exterior finish of the Tuttle Square School, the West Auburn School appears to have been sheathed in wood, either clapboard or, possibly, wood shingle.
(END) NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9 Page_1 OMB Approval No.1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Maps 1870 1898 Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts. New York: F. W. Beers, 1870. Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Co., 1898. City Directories Worcester City Directories, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1929, 1940, 1945 Worcester House Directory 1920 Town Reports Annual Reports of the Town Officers of the Town of Auburn, Massachusetts for the Financial Year Ending December 31, 1908. Worcester: Harrigan Press, 1909. Annual Reports of the Town Officers of the Town of Auburn, Massachusetts for the Financial Year Ending December 31, 1914. Worcester: Harrigan Press, 1915.
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Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1984. Hosmer, Rev. S. D. "Auburn" in History of Worcester County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1889. (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9 Page_2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Published Works (continued) Stevenson, K. C. and Jandl, H. W. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. Washington, D. C.: Preservation Press, 1986. Zook, Nicholas. Holden: The Evolution of a Town. Holden: Holden Bicentennial Commission, 1976. Periodicals Auburn Growth "Bus Service Brings Building Boom to Auburn". no cite. August 3, 1925. Auburn School History "Will Dedicate Auburn School Building". Worcester (Telegram? Gazette?) c.August 24, 1929?
(dedication of Pakachoag School) "Gift of $2000 Feature of School Dedication". Post. September 5, 1929. Noonan, Joan. "Then and Now: Julia Bancroft School". Auburn News. December 16, 1992, p. 17. Noonan, Joan. "Then and Now: Mary D. Stone School". Auburn News. January 20, 1993, p. 6. Noonan, Joan. "Then and Now: Stoneville School", Part I. Auburn News. April 7, 1993. Noonan, Joan. "Then and Now: Stoneville School", Part II. Auburn News. April 21, 1993. Noonan, Joan. "Then and Now: Stoneville School", Part III. Auburn News. April 28, 1993. Singer, Mel. "Old School Awaits Final Bell: Classes to End on Boyce Street". Worcester Gazette. No date (c 1971?). Architect "H. L. Meacham, City Architect, Dies in Millbury". Worcester Evening Gazette. November 4, 1957. District Nurses "Nurse Assn. In Auburn Needs Funds". Worcester Telegram. September 27, 1958, p. 22.
"Auburn Selectmen OK District Nurse Plan". Worcester Telegram. October 14, 1958, p. 13. "Nurses deserve a "yes" or "no" answer now". Auburn News, January 20, 1982, p. 4. (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number_ 9 Page_ 3 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Periodicals (continued) Atkins, Andrea. "District Nurses still seeking home, will meet Selectmen". Auburn News, March 31, 1982, p. 1. Atkins, Andrea. "Town meeting members discuss nurses". Auburn News, April 7, 1982, p. 1. Atkins, Andrea. "District Nurses win first meeting battle". Auburn News, May 12, 1982. Atkins, Andrea. "Nurses get $1-per-year lease for annex". Auburn News, May 19, 1982, p. 2. Unpublished Sources Belding, John and Meredith.
Massachusetts Historical Commission Inventory Forms: "West Auburn School, 715 Southbridge Street, Auburn" and "Center School, 12 Coolidge Street, Auburn"; 1980-1981 Ceccacci, S. National Register Nomination, Sutton Center Historic District, 2000. Ceccacci, S. Massachusetts Historical Commission inventory form, Chaffins School, Holden, March, 2000. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Safety Records, Massachusetts Archives, Index Cards for Auburn Buildings Harrington, Dubrell, former student at Tuttle Square Schooltelephone interview with Paula Lubin, 6/22/2000. Hartwell, John. "Background of the Building of the Tuttle Square School", typewritten manuscript, June 15, 2000. Hartwell, John. E-mail letter to S. Ceccacci regarding Auburn School Reports and Auburn school history, 6/21/2000. Hartwell, John. E-mail letter to S.
Ceccacci regarding Auburn School Reports and Auburn school history, 6/22/2000. Hartwell, John. E-mail letter to S. Ceccacci regarding Auburn School Reports and Auburn school history, 6/24/2000. Hartwell, John. E-mail letter to S. Ceccacci regarding Auburn School Reports and Auburn school history, 6/26/2000. Lubin, Paula. Handwritten notes on 6/22/2000 telephone interview with Dubrell Harrington, former student, Tuttle Square School, 1922-1926. (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9 Page_ 4 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA Lubin, Paula. Handwritten notes on 6/22/2000 telephone interview with Richard Warren, former student, Tuttle Square School, 1927-28. Lubin, Paula.
Handwritten notes on 6/22/2000 telephone interview with Ernest Mitchell, former student, Tuttle Square School, 1949. Lubin, Paula. Two e-mail letters with notes on 6/28/2000 telephone interview with Mrs. Lillian Koehler, former student, Tuttle Square School, 1922-1923. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Survey Report: Auburn, 1984. Massachusetts Historical Commission MACRIS list, buildings designed by Harry L. Meacham. Meacham, Harry L. Plans for #1 School, Auburn,1922. Files of Massachusetts Public Safety Department, Massachusetts Archives # D-5-6-17234. Pfeiffer, Brian. "Worcester Multiple Resource National Register Nomination", 1979. Weagle, Susan J. Massachusetts Historical Commission Inventory Form: "Tuttle Square Schoolhouse, 41 South Street, Auburn", May 2000. Weagle, Susan J.
E-mail letter reporting on Stone family gift of property for Tuttle Square School, 6/29/2000 (END) Iuttle Square School Name of Property Worcester,MA County, State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property - 21,875 sq ft UTM References See continuation sheet. (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1. 19 Zone 265900 Easting 4674700 Northing 3. Zone Easting Northing 2. Zone Easting Northing 4. Zone Easting Northing _ See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title Susan McD.
Ceccacci, consultant, with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission dateDecember 2001 street & number 220 Morrissey Boulevard _ telephone 617-727-8470 city or town Boston _ stateMA _ zip code_ 02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Town of Auburn street & number 102 Central Street _telephone508-832-7720 (Exec.
Secretary) city or town Auburn state MA _zip code_ 01501 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0.
Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form 1 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 10 Page_1 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Tuttle Square School Auburn (Worcester), MA GEOGRAPHICAL DATA VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The boundaries of this property coincide with the boundaries of lot identified by the Auburn Assessor as Lot 35, Map 49. This lot is shown on Auburn Assessor's Maps #49 and #57 (see attached Assessor's Maps 49 and 57). BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION These boundaries were selected because they are the historic boundaries of the lot on which the building has stood since its construction in 1922.
(END) PHOTOGRAPHS, ILLUSTRATIONS Photographer: Susan Ceccacci Date: June 2000 Negative at: Auburn Historical Commission 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Looking SE near intersection of South and School Streets Looking NE from South Street Main entrance, looking E Rear façade, looking N Interior, west wall of south classroom 1. Illustration, sketch plan , original 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Illustration, sketch plan, 2000 Illustration, view looking south from Tuttle Square, with Chester Tuttle memorial Illustration, Old Center School Illustration, West Auburn School Illustration, Arts and Crafts house similar to Tuttle School Illustration, Arts and Crafts style one-room school (END) TO GELL DOWN EACEONEO F BLACKBDARD WAROROE CLASSROOM RACKRONO E THREE-SHELF BOOKCAGE TUTTLE SQUARESCHOOL AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS ORIGINALPLAN (NOTTOSCALE) ILLUSTRATION # 1 GIRLS' BOYS' RODM CIOROOM URINAL TRINKING FONTAIN FOYER E-FLACKBOARD WARDROBE CLASSROOM BUCKBOARD THREE-SHELF BOOKCASE BLACKBOARO ANORTA CELLAR DOWN CLOSET * =] LOW PARTITION = TUTTLE SQUARE SCHOOL AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS PREGENT PLAN JUNE 2000 (NOT TO SKALE) = === NON-ORIGNALWALLS ILLUSTRATION # 2 CHIMNEY RESTROOM RESTROON AIR VENT FOYER -CLOSET - - NORTH ILLUSTRATION #3 View looking south from Tuttle Square.
Main façade of the Tuttle Square School is seen in the distance with the Chester P.Tuttle monument in the foreground. The old one-room Auburn Center School that was replaced by the present Tuttle Square School stood on the site of the present landscaped traffic island at Tuttle Square where the monument is now located ILLUSTRATION # 4 Old Center School Now part of a dwelling at 12 Coolidge Street, the former school is the one-story, gable-roofed section in the foreground. This schoolhouse stood on a triangular lot at the corner of South and School streets until after the construction of the present Tuttle Square School was completed. ILLUSTRATION # 5 West Auburn School (no longer standing), main façade added 1922-1923, Harry L. Meacham, architect. Its siding is wood shingle, its original 1920's exterior material.
This view shows the building after the original banks of windows on either side of the main entrance had been closed up. ILLUSTRATION#6 Arts and Crafts style housesimilar in form to the Tuttle Square School, sold as a kit by Sears, Roebuck and Company ailhiet ipset Elevation drawing for a standardized Wisconsin rural school, 1917. (S. A. Challman, The Rural School Plant) ILLUSTRATION #7 Arts and Crafts style one-room school finished with a stucco exterior. This is an example of a stylish plan book design. Because of its small size and Arts and Crafts style, it has much the same appearance as a dwelling. The bank of windows on one wall is characteristic of recommended school design of the early 20 century period.
HInOS STREET SCHOOL STREET 3L 1 5 L 4 TUTTLE SQUARE SCHOOL, AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS PHOTOGRARH KEY WITH DIRECTION OF VIEW NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number . Page. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 02000129 Date Listed: 3/8/2002 Property Name: Tuttle Square School County: Worcester State: MA Multiple Name This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation.
Vatuick Andues Signature of the Keeper 3/8/2002 Date of Action Amended Items in Nomination: This SLR makes a technical correction to the registration form. In Section 10 of the form the acreage of the nominated area is given in square feet: the State has confirmed that the acreage figure is less than one acre. The form is amended to note the new acreage figure.
DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Tuttle Square School MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 1/24/02 3/01/02 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 2/13/02 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/11/02 REFERENCE NUMBER: 02000129 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 3/8/02 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N N RECOM.
/CRITERIA AcLept AEC REVIEWER Pattich Anduus DISCIPLINE Historian TELEPHONE DATE 3/8/2002 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N tsee attached SLR 553 TUTTLE SQUARE SCHOOL 41 SOUTH GTREET AUBURN (WORCESTER COUNTY) MA PHOTDGRAPHER: S.
CECCACCI DATE : dUNE 2000 NEGATIVE: AUBURN HISTORICAL COMMISSON VIEW: LOOKING SE FROMNEAR INTERSECTON OF SOUTH & SCHOOL STREETS PHOTO #1 TUTTE SQUARE SHOOL 41 SOUTH GREST AUBURN (WORGESTER COUNTY) MA THOTOGRAPHER: S, CECCACOI DATE: JUNE 2000 NEGATIVE: AUBURNHSTORICALCOMMISSION VIEW: LOOKING NE FROM SOUTE STREET PHOTO #2 TUTTLE SQUARE SCHOOL 41 SOUTHSREET AUBURN CWORCESTER CONTY) MA PHOTOGRAPHER: 9, CECCACCI DATE: VUNE 2000 NEGATIVE;AUBURNHISTORICHL COMMISSION VIEW: HAIN ENTRANGE, LOOKING EAST PIDTO + 3 TUTTLE SQUARE SCHOOL 4| SOUTESREET AUBURN (WOROESTER COUNTY) MA PROTOGRERHER: 9, CECCACCI DATE : VUNE 2000 NEGATIVE: AUEURN HISTORICHL COMMISSION VIEW: REARFACADE LOOKING NORTH PHOTO# 4 TUTTLE SQUARE SCHOOL 41 SOUTH STRBET AUBURN (WORCESTER COUNTU) MA PHOTOGRATHER: S.CECCACCI DATE: JUNE 2000 NEGATIVE: AUBURN HSTORICAL COMMISSION VIEW; INTERIOR, WEST WALL OF SOUTH CLAeSRoOM PHOTO # 5 240 109 JARE SCHOO 139 127 30,000 309 128 13.777 103 12,600 TUTTUE SQUARE SCHOOL, AUBURN (WORCESTER COUNTY) MASSACHUSETTE, 1*1100|" L01 120 348 187 13.500 18,004 STREET 104 12,000 105 12.600 100 107 12,6008 14.700 E 103 12,000 94 12,000 12,000g 14,840 STREET SOT 73.
11,232 100 HInOS 200 20,000 001 20 WHITNEY CIRCIE 2o0 133 355 200 300 210 WASHINGTON 200 154 207 124 34,390 308 24,760 145 IND ATEA PASCEL NUMS- 10,000 (SP.C1 AC10) GO LACIOII UPDATED UPOATCO T5 6.90 16-18-90 UPDATED UPDATED 27,900 264 1.8. 48 20,000 239 14570 14100 47 10,000 1400 41 14,000 100, GEORGE ,00 36 10,000 1,100 ONS Dote 03080 Description UPDATÉD UPDATED co 300 STREET -5001 112. 20,303 204 OLIDGE STREET PLEASANT STREET 151 23 23,490 1410 160 1.300 g 152 42,300 ROUTE 14 172 2LEASANT #6 ?! 32,470 STEEAL 20 17,270 26 41,217 STREET 24,250 5 11. GRO 0.1 200 DANDREWS 28 3A -O 181 C1091 ,00 1500 "! BAYBERRY 183 171 10.00 101 MAP63 7 Mapping CULLINAN ENGINEERING CO. INC ALBURN MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF R ASSESSORS DN 11,000 162 12,700 1100 163 % 161 10,100 E 10,300 1os. 1*..
:21,710 PROVIDENCE WORCESTER 30.00 MAP NUMBER SOUTH 100 TERRACE SOUTH 0,098 141 17,012 183 10,202 STREET 17,21: 156 351 157 158 10,000 (34.<1 Acre) Dta G 10° Town Hell 112 of Aubora Town Hell 113 1o1287 ,870 100 STREET 109 3.2 108 29,292 89 I20 t0e 101 12,673 105 1800C MARION AVENUE BARBARA 10250 .53 20,000 54 9300 133 WINCHESTER 55 à 12,400 56 13,100 AVENUE STREET 100 14950 92 11,401 12,330 100.0 15,707 36 23,020 150.- 39051 'SCHOOL 20,100% 34,908 MAP EN ONS UPDATED UPDATED Description UPDATED 150 33 15,604 AVENUE 100 70 80s * E12,0 738 11.297 705 7 224 J224 STREET 1.900 12300 11,100 E 22,10 NL,01 10,000 22000 010S 92 10,000 19,000 11,700 5,00 20700 2395 16,6 19.145 16,00 100 12.060 100 100 10,320 0000 137 à ...320 125 200 8 10,000 43 15,630 3 2200 20.3.s 10 16,050 Diocese of Wasitre Mosschuselle Pentaelan Episcopol Church 168 1..22 1.040 ESTER ,.80 12,007 MAPS) 195.
144 172 102 DRIVE 103 11,183 8 Mannina CULLINAN ENGINEERING CO.INC AUBURN MASSACHUSETTS AAHIA DO 1972 Aoriah ( Photography LOCKWOOD ROCHESTER MAPPINO" NNc. NEW YORK OF ASSESSORS AUBURN MASSACHUS 200 1900 1000 202 10,000 190 10,000 191 10.000 192 10,000 19,57 184 14,06 183 12,9 10. POVNCE NODCECTED R.P. 009 115 7600 EXEMPT TAMeN ANANPA STREET e00. STREET. WASHINGTON MAP NUMDEI 49 AM RECEIVED 2280 JAN 2 4 2002 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The Commonwealth of Massachusetts NATIONAL PARK SERVICE William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission December 26, 2001 Ms. Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 Dear Ms.
Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Tuttle Square School, Auburn (Worcester), MA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. The owners of the property were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30 to 45 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, BetsyFredkers Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure CC: Susan Weagle, Auburn Historical Commission Robert Grossman, Chair, Board of Selectmen Susan Ceccacci, Preservation Consultant David DeLollis, Planning Board Chair 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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