{"nrhp_refnum":"02000129","name":"Tuttle Square School","other_names":["Auburn Center School","Auburn District #1 School","South Street Annex"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 South St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Auburn","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.19144845400007,"lon":-71.83452552099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, two-classroom wood-frame public school at 41 South Street in the center village of Auburn, Worcester County, Massachusetts, built in 1922 to designs by Worcester architect Harry L. Meacham.","why_significant":"The school is significant for its role in local public education and in public health, since the building later housed a nursing association. It is the only surviving two-room school of its kind in Auburn and remains on its original site with most original features intact. It is also a well-preserved example of the Arts and Crafts style and an early work of Meacham.","narrative":"Built in 1922 as Auburn's District #1 or Center School, this one-story, hip-roofed building at 41 South Street has two classrooms and a projecting gabled entrance pavilion with a Federal-style doorframe. Designed by Worcester architect Harry L. Meacham in the Arts and Crafts manner, it has broad eaves with exposed rafters, a fieldstone foundation and wood shingle walls that replaced the original stucco in 1953. Inside, original door and window frames, bookcases, cloak closets and pressed metal ceilings survive, though the classrooms have been subdivided. The school replaced a one-room school that had served the area for generations, and it later was known as the South Street Annex. It is the only surviving two-room school in Auburn and still stands on its original site. After its school years it housed a nursing association and then stood vacant before the town leased it to the local historical society for use as a museum. Its significance rests on education, local public health, and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1922-1951","architect_builder":"Harry L. Meacham, Worcester, MA","architectural_style":"Late 19th & Early 20th Century/Craftsman-Colonial Revival (described in the text as Arts and Crafts)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for several years in the late 1990s; leased in 1999 to the Auburn Historical Society, which was planning to restore and adapt it as a history museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.379302-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7973/63797378/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/02000129.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000129/f47786d4cf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000129/f47786d4cf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuttle_Square_School,_Auburn_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuttle_Square_School,_Auburn_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797378","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle_Square_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7857028"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/tuttle-square-school-02000129/"}