Built 1887 Opened 1887 Architectural style Romanesque architecture | NRHP Reference # 87002562 Area 8,000 m² Added to NRHP 28 January 1988 | |
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The Murdock School, also known as Old Murdock High School, is an historic school building on Murdock Avenue in Winchendon, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story Romanesque brick building was built in 1887 with funds donated by Captain Ephraim Murdock, Jr., whose father had previously donated the Winchendon Academy building to the town. The building is the most elaborate school building in the town. Roughly square in layout with a projecting front gable section, its most prominent feature is the tall clock tower and the Romanesque round arch entryway. The arch is topped on the front facade on the second level by a group of four rectangular windows, and on the third by four round-arch windows. The building served the town as a school building until 1962.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.