{"nrhp_refnum":"04000566","name":"Hyde School","other_names":["Lee Central School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 High St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lee","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.30784257000005,"lon":-73.24708210499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Richardsonian Romanesque-style school building at 100 High Street, Lee, Massachusetts, built in 1894 of white Lee marble and designed by James W. Bryning, with additions from 1936, 1976 and 1977.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant for its role in Lee's educational development and as the only Richardsonian Romanesque-style building in town. Its siting at the head of Academy Street makes it a visual landmark, and it is notable for using locally quarried marble. It stands on the site of Lee's first high school, erected in 1837.","narrative":"Hyde School is a two-story marble school building at 100 High Street in Lee, Massachusetts, completed in 1894 and dedicated on January 1, 1895. James W. Bryning designed it in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, and the Boston firm Woodbury and Leighton built it from coursed, rough-cut white marble quarried in Lee. A four-story tower with a round-arched entry and a belfry anchors the facade, and the building sits on a rise at the head of Academy Street. It replaced Lee Academy, which burned in 1894, and was the town's first school paid for by property taxes from all residents. Later additions came in 1936, 1976 and 1977. The school served Lee as a high school and then an elementary school, and briefly became a quarantine hospital during the 1928 sore throat epidemic. It was listed for its architecture and its role in local education, and it was vacant at the time of listing, having closed as a school in January 2003.","period_of_significance":"1894 to 1954","architect_builder":"James Bryning, Hyde building; Woodbury and Leighton, builder; Morris W. Maloney, 1936 addition","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Romanesque (Richardsonian Romanesque)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant under current functions; in continuous use as a school until January 2003.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.374138-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7942/63794252/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/04000566.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000566/171bfb9a10-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000566/171bfb9a10-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Central_School,_Lee_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Central_School,_Lee_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794252","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5953743"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/hyde-school-04000566/"}