{"nrhp_refnum":"09000611","name":"Samuel Brown School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 Lynn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peabody","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.50384623000008,"lon":-70.95069195299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-08-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Classical Revival school at 200 Lynn Street in Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts, built in 1911 with additions in 1930 and 1952, since converted to senior housing.","why_significant":"The nomination finds the school significant under Criteria A and C, in the areas of education and architecture. It shows how Peabody's school system grew with its immigrant, industrializing population across three building campaigns. The additions by John M. Gray were sympathetic to the original 1911 design by Edward Earp and Son, and the 1930 wing added an auditorium with a separate public entrance.","narrative":"Samuel Brown School, at 200 Lynn Street in Peabody, Massachusetts, is a load-bearing brick school built in 1911 to designs by Edward Earp and Son. Its Classical Revival design includes a hip-roofed central block, a round-arched entrance pavilion, and stone and copper trim. Boston architect John M. Gray designed two matching wings, added in 1930 and 1952. The 1930 north wing included an auditorium with its own public entrance, a common feature of early twentieth-century schools that served as community gathering places. The school opened with about 100 students in a semi-rural area of farms and ice harvesting, then grew as the neighborhood filled with small houses and immigrant families. It was listed for its role in local education and for its architecture, including the respectful continuity of the additions. A rehabilitation completed in 2008 turned the classrooms into senior apartments while keeping the central corridor plan, stairways, doors and some built-in cabinets.","period_of_significance":"1911-1959","architect_builder":"Edward Earp and Son, architects (1911); John M. Gray, architect (1930/1952)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and converted to active senior housing (Brown School Residences), completed in 2008; a new four-story apartment building was added behind it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.99241-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7948/63794854/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000611.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000611/c93b9a59b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000611/c93b9a59b5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PeabodyMA_SamuelBrownSchool.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PeabodyMA_SamuelBrownSchool.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794854","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brown_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7410998"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/samuel-brown-school-09000611/"}