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Walpole Academy

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Built
  
1831 (1831)

Opened
  
1831

Added to NRHP
  
21 May 1975

NRHP Reference #
  
75000230

Area
  
6,100 m²

Walpole Academy

Location
  
Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

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Walpole academy top 5 facts


The Walpole Academy is a historic former school building on Main Street in Walpole, New Hampshire. It is now owned by the Walpole Historical Society and operated as a local history museum. The wood frame building was built in 1831, and is a fine rural example of a 19th-century Greek Revival academy building. The building has a classic Greek temple appearance, with Doric columns supporting an entablature and a triangular pediment with a fanlight detail. The building is topped by an octagonal, arcaded cupola. The academy building was used as a private school until 1853, when the town acquired for use as its high school. It was purchased from the town by the historical society in 1950.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Walpole Academy Wikipedia


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