{"nrhp_refnum":"83000599","name":"Quincy School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"94 Newbury Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.280599780000045,"lon":-71.02843337099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Quincy School is a two-story brick Neo-Colonial public grammar school at 94 Newbury Avenue in North Quincy, Massachusetts, built in 1906 with rear ells added in 1932. It sits on a 1.33-acre lot at the corner of Newbury Avenue and Botolph Street.","why_significant":"The nomination holds that the school is a well designed and well preserved example of early 20th century institutional architecture in Quincy. It also reflects a period of intense civic and population growth, when the city's population doubled about every 20 years from around 1870 to 1915. Among the city's many well preserved brick schools of the era, it is described as one of the most substantial and monumental.","narrative":"Quincy School is a brick grammar school at 94 Newbury Avenue in North Quincy, Massachusetts. The City of Quincy appropriated $61,000 in 1906 for a 12-room building, designed by the Boston firm Hurd and Gore and built by Marr Brothers. Pupils first occupied it in September 1907, and it was equipped with electric lighting, telephones and an automatic clock system. Population growth led the city to fund an eight-room addition in 1931; two rear ells by Hutchins and French, built by M. J. Kelliher, were finished in 1932, giving the building a U-shaped plan. The Neo-Colonial design features granite quoins, a copper cornice, a slate roof and a gabled central frontispiece with a portico of polished granite Tuscan columns. Alterations are limited to new windows and doors and asphalt roofs on the additions. The school was listed for its architecture and for reflecting Quincy's rapid growth as a city. At the time, it stood vacant, with reuse as housing proposed.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Hurd & Gore, Architect, 1906; Marr Bros., Builder; Hutchins & French, Architects (1932); M. J. Kelliher, Builder","architectural_style":"Neo-Colonial","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for about a year and a half at the time of nomination, but well preserved and maintained; proposals for reuse would convert it to residential condominiums or apartments.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.829267-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7963/63796322/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000599.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000599/43a380802e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000599/43a380802e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_School_Quincy_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:Quincy_School_Quincy_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796322","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7272183"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/quincy-school-83000599/"}