{"nrhp_refnum":"10000244","name":"Wilber, Charles R., School","other_names":["Sharon High School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"75-85 S Main St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sharon","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.123629126000026,"lon":-71.18043680699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red-brick school building at 75-85 South Main Street in Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, built in two phases: an elementary school in 1921-1922 and a high school addition in 1928-1929.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A for its role in Sharon's public education, serving as grammar school, high school and intermediate school from 1922 to 1981. Under Criterion C, it is a rare, intact example of nonresidential Colonial Revival architecture in the town and its most imposing Colonial Revival structure.","narrative":"Set on a slight rise facing Sharon's Town Hall, the Charles R. Wilber School is a flat-roofed, T-shaped brick building at 75-85 South Main Street. Its south wing, designed by Boston architects Monks & Johnson in the Colonial Revival style, opened in 1922 as a grammar school named for the town's only known World War I casualty. A 1928-1929 north wing and auditorium, designed by Ralph Harrington Doane and Edward S. Holland in the Classical Revival style with Colonial Revival details, converted the building into Sharon High School. It later served as an intermediate school until closing in 1981. The building is significant for its place in the town's educational history and as a rare, intact example of nonresidential Colonial Revival design in Sharon. After standing vacant for years, it was rehabilitated for apartments beginning in 2009, with a new four-story wing added at the rear.","period_of_significance":"1922-1959","architect_builder":"Monks & Johnson; Ralph Harrington Doane; Edward S. Holland","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant from 1981 until 2009, when rehabilitation into apartments began, including a new four-story rear addition built in 2009.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.322701-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7963/63796340/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/10000244.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000244/1155cc3630-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000244/1155cc3630-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SharonMA_CharlesRWilberSchool.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:SharonMA_CharlesRWilberSchool.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796340","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Wilber_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16859004"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/wilber-charles-r-school-10000244/"}