Built 1915 (1915) Opened 1915 Architectural style Renaissance architecture | NRHP Reference # 88001907 Area 2 ha Added to NRHP 27 October 1988 | |
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Location 70 Shelburne Rd.,
Greenfield, Massachusetts | ||
The Newton School is a historic school in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The 1915 Renaissance Revival building is distinctive for being a rare early example of a single story institutional building in that style. The U-shaped brick building features a shallow slate roof, and brick gable stands over the main entrance. The corners of the building have stone insets decorated with an open book design.
The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Local historian Peter S. Miller is partially responsible for the Newton School name, having opposed an effort to change it to the Catherine Carney School in 1990 in honor of a long-time teacher. The school is named for James Newton, who owned the land and a sawmill nearby in the 1880s. Solon Street is named for his son, Solon Newton.
A 1915 annual town report refers to the school as Westside, a reference to the location on the west side of the Green River.
With the help of Greenfield Recreation Department, Kaboom!, families and community members, Newton School built a new playground in October 2015 featuring playground instruments, unique to its community.