Princeton School, Princeton, MA Class of 1891

Princeton School, Princeton, MA Class of 1891

School buildings--Massachusetts--Princeton; School children; Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Princeton; Goodnow Memorial Building

Princeton students of the class of 1891 with their teacher, Miss Alice Coffin, assembled outside the Goodnow Memorial Building in Princeton, Massachusetts. The Goodnow Memorial Building was originally designed to house the town school and library. Divided into two halves, the school was located on the west and the library on the east. The Goodnow Memorial Building housed the school from 1891 to 1906 when the Princeton Center School opened. The Lower School was located on the main floor (currently the Children's Room of the Princeton Public Library). The Upper School was located on the second floor (currently the Reference Room of the Princeton Public Library).

From back of photograph: In front row from left to right: Alice Weaks, Bertha Roper, Gertrude West, Louise Gregory, Mable Elliot, Maude Dolittle, Lena Whitcomb, Jennie Thompson. In second row: Amanda Stanton, Mamie Lanpher, Della Hubbard, Carrie Gregory, Alice S. Gill, Eddie Mason, Mary Keyes, Florence Joslin, Bertha Matthews, Grace West, Charlie Putnam. In third row: Henry Skinner, Harry Mason, John Davis, Earnest Morgan, Harry Sweet, Carroll Barber, Harriet Beaman, Josie West, George Ross, Eugene Roper, Thomas Sprowl, Millie White. In back row: Charlie Nelson, Miss Alice Coffin, Harry Ball, George Richardson, Walter Mirick, Herbert Richardson, Roy Muzzy, Victor Muzzy, Eduard Beaman, Charlie Thompson, Earnest Young.

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Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

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