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In this building are the High School and six of the primary grades, though the former is shortly to be transferred to the new building, in process of erec- tion on Summer Street.
The building of the new Thorndike Street School house was delayed by the necessity of using the old one as long as possible for school purposes, but the building committee improved the time in getting their plans ready. The old building was, on June 4, 1881, sold for $580, and the furnace for $20, giving the committee $6,600 of available funds. The plans were prepared by Tristram Griffin, and the contract for erecting the new building was awarded on June 23, 1881, to Joel Snow, of Somerville. The building cost in all, $6,595.88, including furnaces, and was completed and accepted by the committee, Octo- ber 15, 1881. Schools were opened in it on Wednesday, October 19, 1881. The rooms are 28 by 32 feet on floor,
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and 13 feet high. The normal seating capacity is 188.
Down to the year 1885, the Glendale district continued to occupy the old school house built in 1854. As it had but two rooms, the schools could be but poorly graded, each teacher being obliged to teach four grades, except when an assistant was employed. In 1885, the population in that section had outgrown these accommodations, and required a larger building. At a town meeting, held March 10, 1885, the sum of $7,000, including the proceeds of the sale of the old building, was appropriated for the erection of a four room school house, at Glendale, and a building committee was selected, consist- ing of I. E. Coburn, E. C. Mead, Solo- mon Shute, Timothy Murphy, S. F. Hoogs, Fred Johnson, and D. P. Bailey. The old school house was sold for $540, and removed to the northerly side of Shute Street, where, transformed into a tenement house, it stills remains. The lot was enlarged by the purchase, for $200, of 11,507 square feet of additional land in the rear, (a part of what the South district sold in 1844.) John Lyman Faxon was employed as archi- tect, and the contract for erecting the building was awarded to Mead, Mason & Co., for $6,700. The entire cost of the building and additional land, furnish- ing and heating apparatus was $8,065.20 Four schools, much better graded than before, were opened in the new building in November. Within six years (so rapid was the growth of this section), the increased accommodations were out-
grown, and it became necessary to enlarge the building erected in 1885, which some had, at that time, thought to be larger than the prospective growth of the district warranted. At a town meeting, held March 10, 1891, the sum of $1,200 was appropriated to purchase additional land, and at a subsequent meeting, on May 13, 1891, the town treasurer was authorized to borrow $11,000, payable in ten annual install- ments, which was appropriated for the purpose of providing increased school accommodations at Glendale. The matter was intrusted to a committee, consisting of R. M. Barnard, S. J. Sewall, C. S. Hapgood, I. E. Coburn, Thomas Leavitt, J. B. Everett, and Samuel Free- man, 2nd. The committee, after con- sidering various plans, decided to enlarge the existing building, by adding four rooms on the north side, and for this purpose purchased, for $1,200, 11,400 square feet more of the land sold by the South District in 1844, making $1,400 paid for 22,907 square feet in 1885 and 1891, as compared with $200 received by the district in 1844, for an acre and a half. The total area of the lot, as enlarged, is about 33,000 square feet.
Brigham & Spofford were employed as architects, and persuant to their plans, the building has not only been enlarged but made much more attractive in its external appearance. The con- tract for the erection of the building was awarded to Charles H. Mead. The entire cost of the additional land and the enlargement of the building has been $12,450.71, making the total cost
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The Glendale School House.
Erected in 1885; enlarged in 1891. Upon this site stood the old South District School House (see cut, page 47), removed in 1842, from Broadway, where now stands the residence of Mayor Evans.
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of the Glendale School house and land, (including the cost of the original lot, $100) $20,515.91. Every room in the building is now occupied, and addi- tional accommodations are urgently demanded.
Within two years from the enlarge- ment of the Church Street school house, the town again came face to face with the question of better school accommo- dations in the central part of the town, the exigency being the more pressing on account of the bad sanitary condi- tions existing at the old Centre school house. A committee of invegtigation was appointed, March 13, 1888, con- sisting of D. P. Bailey, F. B. Wallis, N. J. Mead, W. A Ham, Augustus
Leland, Francis Batchelder, J. H. Burt, Geo. S. Marshall, and W. M. Gruber, which reported, May 2, 1888, in favor of erecting a brick school house of dimensions sufficient to contain eight rooms, each 28 by 36 feet. The recom- mendations of the committee were unanimously adopted, and the sum of $25,000 was appropriated for this ob- ject, $22,000 of this amount to be bor- rowed, to be repaid in annual install- ments not exceeding $3,000. The same committee was intrusted with the duty of attending to the erection of the building. The lot selected at the cor- ner of Broadway and Broadway Court, containing 22,000 square feet of land, was purchased of Alexander Cochrane, Trustee, for $3,960 (18 cents per foot). The architect employed to draw the plans of the building was Wesley L. Minor, of Brockton. The foundations
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Residence of Nathaniel J. Mead,
Chelsea Street.
were constructed by Patrick Linehan, of Malden ; and the contract was awarded to Mead, Mason & Co. Owing to various causes, which need not here be mentioned, the contract was not signed until August 23, 1888, and the building was not completed, ready for occupancy until September 23, 1889, at which date three of the four schools in the old Centre school house were transferred to the Broadway school
Beacham School House. Erected in 1891. Named in honor of John Beacham, former owner of the Van Voorhis Estate.
house, and on the 14th of October, the old building was finally abandoned for school purposes, after being in use forty-two years. Into all the various difficulties attending the erection of our first brick school house, it is unnecessary here to enter. The total cost of the building and land footed up $33,611.29, or $8,611.29 above the original estimate. This, however, includes furnishing and many extras not contemplated in the original design. A cut of this building makes a part of our frontispiece.
With the completion of the Broadway School house, the town had effected an entire reconstruction of its school accom- modations, and there no longer remained in use for school purposes a solitary building, inherited from Malden. All this had been accomplished in nineteen years, (mostly in the eight years, 1881- 89,) at a cost of $103,275.
The building erected at Mystic Vil- lage, in 1881, sufficed for the wants of that section for ten years, though in 1889, on the completion of the Broadway School house, it became necessary to transfer the pupils of the highest grade thither. In 1891, the growth of the district imperatively demanded additional accommodations. At a town meeting, held March 10, 1891, $2,500 were appro- priated for the purchase of land, and on May 13, 1891, the sum of $12,500 was appropriated for the erection of a build- ing, making $15,000 in all, which was increased by a.subsequent appropriation of $300, the money to be raised by a loan payable in ten equal annual payments. The matter was intrusted to the committee chosen at the same
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Residence of Francis B. Wallis.
Taken from the roof of the old Centre School House, by the late George F. Wallis.
meeting to enlarge Glendale School House.
The original plan, was to purchase the lot adjoining the Thorndike Street School house, but as satisfactory title could not be obtained in season, the committee purchased a lot on the South-west side of Beacham Street, consisting of 17,961 square feet, for $2,155.32. The architects were Brigham & Spofford and the contract for erecting the building was awarded to Nielson & Blanchard. The building completed cost, including land, $15,298. It was dedicated on Saturday, February 13, 1892, on which occasion, Samuel Free- man, 2nd, presided, and addresses were made by prominent citizens, members of the committee and others. The building contains four rooms, and in the tower has been placed a clock purchased by voluntary subscriptions.
In the ten years from 1882 to 1892, the number of pupils in the High School had increased from 20 to 92, and it became necessary to provide more com- modious quarters for this institution, also to make provision for the relief of the pressure in the lower grades. This matter was brought before the town for its consideration, at a meeting, held January 26, 1892, and was referred to a committee of seven, consisting of Samuel Freeman, 2nd, Charles E. Jen- ings, Darius Hadley, Stephen F. Hoogs. George M. Nash, James B. Everett, and Elisha A. Loring. This committee made a partial report at a town meeting, held March 15, and at a meeting held March 29, an appropriation of $6,500 was made for the purchase of a lot.
The committee purchased 19,066 square feet of land, on the southerly side of Summer Street, for $4,622.26. Loring & Phipps were employed as
architects to prepare plans which, with es- timates of the cost of the building, were sub- mitted to the town at a meeting held May 31, 1892. At this meeting an appropriation of $38,000 was made for the erection of a three- story brick building, for the High school and other grades. This ap- propriation being found insufficient when the bids were received, a further appropriation of $17,000 was made, August 2, 1892, making the total appropriation for the land and building, $61,500. The building, when com- pleted, will be by far the, finest school house in the city. Its length is 93 feet 6 inches, its width, 75 feet 6 inches, with a projection in front and another in the rear. It covers an area of 7,312 square feet. The basement, three sides of which are above ground, contains, besides boiler room and other accesso- ries, one large hall, so planned as to be susceptible of division, when needed, into three school rooms, each with a capacity for fifty pupils.
The first floor contains two school rooms, with a normal seating capacity for 44 and 46 pupils respectively ; also a recitation room, with a capacity for 33 pupils ; a superintendent's office and
a committee room, besides closets. The second story contains the High school room, 7412 by 3912 feet, with a normal seating capacity for 165 pupils ; a recitation room, 21 by 24 feet ; a library room; a principal's room; and a school room, with a nor- mal seating capacity for 47 pupils. On the third floor is a large unfinished room, 32 by 5812 feet, well lighted, and available when finished, for school purposes. When fully completed, if all the space is utilized, including the room in the basement, it is estimated that this building will accommodate 550 scholars with comfort and a considera- bly larger number in case of urgent necessity. Much attention and thought has been given to the heating and ventilation of the new building. The Smith system, so-called, has been adopted, steam from two boilers being used. By means of a fan driven by a small engine, fresh, warm air is forced, as needed, through ducts, to every room in the building. Through the efforts of the pupils, a telescope has been pur- chased by private subscription, and is to be placed in a suitable tower on the new building. The contractors for the erection of this building are Fessenden & Libby.
For the more convenient organization of its schools, Everett is divided into five districts, known as the Centre, Glendale, Mount Washington, Mystic Village, and Locust Street districts. Previous to 1891, the schools in these districts were designated by their loca- tion or the name of the street on which
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Two Blocks Owned by Dudley P. Bailey,
Corner School Street and School Street Place, on the site of the former residence of John Lewis.
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Residence of Hawes Atwood, Broadway, corner High Street. Site of South Parish Meeting House. (See History.)
they were located. By vote of the committee, in that year, the several schools received the following names :
Locust Street, named the Winslow School.
Church Street, named the Devens School.
Thorndike Street, named the Warren School.
Ferry Street, named the Glendale School. Florence St. named the Mt. Washington School. Broadway, named the Centre School.
The first was named in honor of Capt. George Winslow, a prominent and public spirited citizen of South Malden, identified with all its progressive meas- ures and improvements. The second takes its name from General Charles Devens; soldier, jurist, statesman, and orator. The third was named in honor of General Joseph Warren, of Revolu- tionary fame. The school en Beacham Street was named the Beacham School in memory of Mr. John Beacham, who, during the last half of the last century, owned and occupied the larger part of the Van Voorhis estate.
The number of children between five and fifteen years of age in the different districts in town, May 1, 1892, was as follows, as compared with 1891 and with the membership at the beginning of February, 1893 :
Children between 5 and 15 yrs. Membership
DISTRICT.
May 1, 1891.
May 1, 1892.
of Schools, Feb., 1893.
Centre,
744
846
*8 59
Mystic Village, 317
342
313
Mt. Washington,
443
462
435
Glendale,
307
444
4.48
Locust Street,
362
447
4.56
Total,
2,173
2,54I
2,51I
Increase,
368.
* Including 109 pupils in High School.
The city of Everett will have, with the completion of the High School Building on Summer Street, eight school
houses, containing 57 main school rooms, besides smaller rooms. These school
rooms will have a seating capacity for about 3,000 pupils, which may be some- what increased if necessary. The town and city of Everett will have expended in the erection and furnishings of these buildings nearly, or quite, $200,000, besides several thousand dollars on school buildings now discarded. The Town of Everett, in the nearly twenty- three years of its existence, prior to be- coming a city, expended nearly $400,000 for the current expenses of its schools.
The educational condition of Everett as it will be when the High school house is finished, will compare as fol- lows with its condition in 1870 :-
1870. 1893.
No. of children 5 to 15
years old
432 Est. 2,900
School Expenditures,
$8,443 92 Est. $55,000
Average to each child
of school age
$19 55
5 $18 93
Schools
9
01
Est.
Seating Capacity of
School Buildings,
314
3,000
.
$19,000 00 $200,000 00
The following table presents at a glance the gradual growth of our school department : -
Financial
Year
Whole No. of School
Total Expense
Total
Ending
Children
per
Expendi-
Feb. 28.
May I
Pupil.
ture.
1870-71
432
$19 55
$8,443 92
1871-72
503
18
55
9,331 54
1872-73
541
21 15
11,443 22
1873-74
600
18 30 10,978 14
1874-75
618
22 00
13,594 IO
1875-76
677
21 80
14,752 17
1876-77
702
15 89
11,154 70
1877-78
724
14 59
10,558 15
1878-79
744
14 23
10,590 63
1879-80
734
14 35
10,535 31
1880-81
76.4
14 16
10,814 51
*1881
832
II 89
9,893 41
1882
879
15 29
13,441 88
1883
912
15 16
13,823 25
1884
965
18 65
18,002 61
1885
1,039
18 2Š
18,989 23
1886
1,145
16 71
19,127 72
1887
1,217
17 18
20,912 29
1888
1,415
15 99
22.626 49
1889
1,659
15 71
26,055 47
1890
1,847
15 56
28,736 59
1891
2,173
15 94
34,854 45
1892
2,541
19 45
49,418 07
* 10 months.
After 1880, financial year ending Decem-
ber 31.
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Residence of Samuel Freeman, 2nd, Linden Street.
School Houses
School Rooms
57
No. of Teachers
Value of School Prop- erty
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Residence of Lewis P. True, Corner of Belmont and Bucknam Streets.
A pleasing incident in the history of our schools was the raising of the American Flag over each. The High School was the first to secure a flag. The others were formally presented at a meeting held in Y. M. C. A. Hall, February 22, 1890, at which Edson S. Lott, presided. After prayer by Rev. F. T. Pomeroy, and a patriotic address, by Rev. R. P. Bush, flags were pre- sented as follows : --
The Sons of Veterans, by Capt. F. A. Beals, to the Centre school; the Young Men's Republican Club, by Mr. J. J. Tracy, to the Glendale school ; the Glendon Club, by G. E. Smith, to the Warren School; the Everett Young Men's Christian Association, by R. A. Edwards, to the Mount Washington school; James Perkins Post, G. A. R., by Rev. W. O. Ayer, to the Winslow school.
The subject of an evening school had been agitated for some years but never took shape until 1889. On the 19th day of March, pursuant to the recom- mendations of the school committee, an appropriation of $500 was made, and on the 15th day of October, following, after the legal notices had been given, an evening school was opened in the Broad- way school house, the sessions being maintained Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- day, and Thursday evenings, from 7:30 to 9:30. The number of different scholars attending during the first term was 115 ; the largest number at any one session was 81 ; and the average number present for the whole term, ending Fri- day, December 20th, was 29. The oldest scholar attending was 41 years of age ; the youngest 13 ; and the aver- age age was 15, 2-15 years. This
institution affords a means of education to many who have previously enjoyed very limited opportunities in this direc- tion. It has continued from the first under the charge of Clarence C. Smith, with one or more assistants. During the season of 1892-93, the sessions of the school continued seventeen weeks. During this period, 113 different pupils were admitted to the school. The average attendance during the first term was 39 ; during the second, 27. The school occu- pied two rooms, one newly fitted up during the past year, on the third floor of the Broadway School House, under
the charge of Mr. Smith; the other in a room below, under the charge of Miss Margaret A. Metcalf and Mrs. Charlotte P. Plumer.
Prior to 1883, the superintendence of schools had been exercised by a school committee of six members, which it was voted to reduce to three, March 6, 1883. On March 4, 1884, the town decided to employ a superinten- dent of the schools. The school com- mittee were fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Wm. H. Lambert, lately superintendent of schools of Malden, from whose labors the schools received great benefit. The town not being then large enough to employ and pay a superintendent for his whole time, it was hoped that some neighboring town would co-operate and thus make the arrangement permanent. This hope was not realized, and at the end of a year Mr. Lambert resigned, to resume teach- ing, and the town voted, March 19, 1885, to dispense with a superinten- dent, after April 1. On March 2, 1886, the number of the school committee was again increased to six, and on March 5, 1889, to nine members, which number has remained as then fixed. The rapid growth of the town made the supervision of the schools by a committee of busy men yearly more difficult. In 1891, the population hav- ing increased to 12,472, and the magni- tude of our school system being suffi- cient to demand the entire time of one man, the town, on March 10, 1891, again decided to employ a superinten- dent. Mr. Randall J. Condon, a gradu- ate of Colby University in 1886, and former representative in the Maine
KILBURN & CROSS.
Residence of Thomas F. Hill, Jr.,
Cottage Street.
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William Henry Lambert,
The first school superintendent of Everett, was born at Durham, Maine, August 4, 18.43 ; gradu- ated from Waterville College, now Colby Univer- sity, in 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1866; married Miss Emma F. Otis, September 11, 1866; principle of East Corinth Academy 1866-67 ; Castine High School 1867-69; Augusta High School 1869-70; Lewiston High School 1871-74; Fall River, (Mass ) High School 1874-79 ; super- intendent of schools of Malden 1879-84. In 1884, Mr. Lambert was elected superintendent of schools of Everett in which position he remained one year. Though his period of service was short, it exerted a marked influence for good, in improved methods. During his period of service, he prepared a revised course of study, which, with some changes, was adopted later in 1885. He left in 1885, much to the regret of both teachers and school committee, resuming his old position at Fall River, under most favorable conditions, in an elegant new building. Here he remained until his death, which occured quite suddenly, November 4, 1890, in the prime of manhood. Mr. Lambert was a man of fine presence, a polished and fascinating speaker, and possessed literary abilities of a high order. He was a born teacher, governing his pupils by inspiring them. He ranked high, and was stead- ily rising in reputation as an educator and was president of the Massachusetts teachers asso- ciation. A gentleman by instinct, his manly character and polished manners made him friends wherever he went. He was in politics a Repub- lican and in religion a Baptist. He left a widow and two daughters who reside at Malden.
Legislature, was elected to fill this posi- tion, which he still continues to hold. The schools have received marked benefit through a more careful super- vision, and work with more unity of plan.
The first course of study in the Ever- ett schools was adopted in 1871. It has been revised in 1874, 1880-81, 1885, and 1891. Prior to 1874 only one male teacher was permanently employed in the schools of Everett. In that year the Centre Grammar school, which was in an unsatisfac- tory condition, was placed in charge of a master, with highly beneficial results. In 1890, a master was em- ployed at Locust Street, now known as the Winslow school, and in 1891, mas- ters were also employed in the Glen-
dale, Mount Washington, and Mystic Village Districts.
The influence of a teacher comes next to that of a parent, in its far reaching effects, and through the lives of the pupils is felt in ever widening circles. A history of our schools would therefore be incomplete without some notice of the various instructors who have served in the schools of South Malden and Everett. Of the teachers in the old school house on the hill, very little information has been pre- served. Mrs. Hannah W. Estes, the mother of Zera Estes, taught there some time prior to 1820; and John Sargent, father of Albert F. Sargent, taught there in 1816, 1817 and 1818. The first school in the South-west District was taught by Miss Mary B. Oakes, daugh- ter of Captain Jonathan Oakes, in the little shop on School Street, just back of John Pickering's house. She had taught in the old school house on the hill, and also taught the first school in the new South-west District school house, in the Fall of 1842. One of her former pupils was Mr. Columbus Corey, who, twenty years ago, in the Everett Free Press, says : "She made her labor a labor of love and no teacher ever gained, to a greater extent, the affection of her pupils." "Still we would venture to say, that no school was ever better conducted or children better behaved." He adds: "That to her they were indebted, to a great extent, for the good impulses, which they had received in their early training."
Among those teachers, who from long service or otherwise have left the im- press of their influence in a special manner upon our schools, the following deserve special mention :- Miss Martha
Shop on School Street,
Next southwest of Dearing's Building, in which the first school of the Southwest District was kept, in 1842.
Gould, who filled out nearly twenty-six years of successful service, from 1852 to 1878, in the primary schools of South Malden and Everett, and who is affectionately remembered by many of our citizens, now grown to manhood and womanhood ; Miss Emily E. Chad- bourne, who for thirty-three years has been a thorough and systematic teacher, mostly in what is now the Centre Grammar School,- the longest service on record among our teachers; Henry L. Chase, who served with rare ability for nine years, from 1857 to 1866, as principal of the South Malden (later the Everett Centre) Grammar School, and who afterwards, until his death, within a few years, taught in Lynn ; Miss Lucena Corbett, (afterwards the wife of our late esteemed town treasurer, Joseph E. Nichols) who taught the Glen- dale School with great success in 1853- 54; R. A. Rideout. who has just completed twenty-six years of successful
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Residence of George C. Aiken, Broadway.
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Residence of Charles H. Mead, Broadway.
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