Felton Street School

United States historic place

Felton Street School

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| 20 Felton Street,
Hudson, Massachusetts
Coordinates| 42°23′34″N 71°34′10″W﻿ / ﻿42.3929°N 71.5695°W﻿ / 42.3929; -71.5695
Built| 1882
Architect| Fuller & Delano
Architectural style| Gothic, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.| 86000275[1]
Added to NRHP| February 27, 1986

The Felton Street School is a historic school building built in 1882 located at 20 Felton Street in Hudson, Massachusetts, United States. The 2+1⁄2-story brick-and-stone structure served as the town's high school until 1957. Today it is a residential apartment building. The building's design and ornamentation is typical of Queen Anne and Stick style architecture. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

## History[edit]

Architects Fuller & Delano designed the Felton Street School.[2] Construction costs totaled $15,000.[2] It opened in 1882 as the new Hudson High School and served in that capacity until 1957.[2] In 1901 the originally four-room school was expanded to eight rooms.[2] Local merchants published and sold postcards depicting the Felton Street School during the early 1900s.[3][4]

When the Hudson and Massachusetts Historical Commissions inventoried the building as a historic property in 1978, they described its use as both "mental health facility" and "vacant," noting recent vandalism.[2] Since then the building has been renovated into 12 loft-style apartments.[5]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 27, 1986.[1]

## Architecture[edit]

The Felton Street School's plan is T-shaped.[2] The building's foundation is granite.[2] Its front façade has a projecting three-story gabled pavilion with large brackets at the roof corners and applied Stick style decoration—including a rising sun motif—in the gable.[2] A portico supported by similar large brackets shelters the main entrance set in this pavilion.[2] Six-over-six triple-paned rectangular windows punctuate the structural brick exterior walls on the front and side façades, while the rear façade has arched windows.[2] The window sills and lintels are made of brownstone.[2] The detailed brick cornice is corbelled and the building's chimneys have Queen Anne style ornamentation.[2] The school's original hipped slate roof contains hipped dormers also sheathed with slate.[2]

## See also[edit]

* Hudson High School (Massachusetts)
* Hudson Public Schools
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "MACRIS inventory record for Felton Street School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
3. ^ Worcester, E. F. (Edward F.) (1914) [Revised edition of Hudson, Past and Present (1899)]. Hudson Yesterday and Today. Hudson, MA: Hudson Publishing Co. hdl:2027/bc.ark:/13960/t5gb81266. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
4. ^ Halprin, Lewis; The Hudson Historical Society (2008). Postcard History Series: Hudson. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-6284-1.
5. ^ "Hudson Schoolhouse Apartments". Retrieved 2 July 2020.

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