Pine Street School (Northfield, Massachusetts)

The Pine Street School is a historic schoolhouse at 13 Pine Street in Northfield, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1904, and represents a well-preserved specimen of an early 20th-century school building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Designed by Westfield architect Augustus W. Holton in 1903, the building is a  1 ¹⁄₂-story Colonial Revival structure, built to replace a smaller schoolhouse that was overcrowded and in poor condition. On the first floor it has a large vestibule, with hanging hooks for student coats. Doors lead into two equally sized classrooms which still have original electrical fixtures, wooden bead-board wainscoting, and plaster walls. Stairs from the vestibule lead up to a third, larger classroom. The building was used as a schoolhouse from its construction until 1940, when a fire destroyed the town's Center School. The town then consolidated the elementary grades in a newly built Center School building. The Pine Street school building has served as the town museum since 1943.