Newton photographs oversize : Allen House : 35 Webster Street / [compiled by the staff of the Newton Free Library]. - Allen House : 35 Webster Street - The Main Class Room -

Newton photographs oversize : Allen House : 35 Webster Street / [compiled by the staff of the Newton Free Library]. - Allen House : 35 Webster Street - The Main Class Room -

Allen House (Newton, Mass.) -- Photographs. - Allen School for Girls (Newton, Mass.) -- Photographs. - Historic buildings -- Massachusetts -- Newton -- Photographs - Newton (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -

1 box ; 45 x 36 x 3 cm - Thirteen color & black and white photographs 9 x 11 cm-28 x 35 cm., one piece of fundraising material, one brochure and five newspaper clippings. - The Nathaniel T. Allen Homestead has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978. It was built in Greek Revival style around 1844 and was a stop on the underground railroad. The Allen family lived and ran schools there for nearly a century - West Newton English and Classical School, 1853- ; the Misses Allen School and the Allen School for Girls, 1915-1943 Nathaniel T. Allen (1823-1903) was noteworthy because he worked with Horace Mann, the first Secretary of the State Board of Education, to establish a model teachers' school, which later moved from West Newton to Framingham, Massachusetts. After the move, Mann left for Ohio and persuaded Allen to remain in West Newton and set up a private school. He was influential in promoting the importance of education and professionalization of teaching. - Classroom of Allen School for Girls with students sitting at desks and teachers on benches on the side. Main Classroom left to right: Row 1 – Elizabeth Mann, Helene Lyons, Asenath Magee, Row 2 – Helen Filene, Jessica Stewart, Pursis Stearns, St. Amant, Row 3 – Evelyn Prouty, St. Amant, Elizabeth Bowker, Doris Fitts, Olive Floyd, Row 4 – Josephine Hawes, Edith Snelling, Dorothy Belcher, Catherine Hamilton, Row 5 – Myrtle Reed?, Read, Martha Chapman, Virginia Frost, Carmen Hoyt, Rear Row – Sturgis, Dalzell, Carol Allen, To right on settee – Miss Howison, Lucy Ellis Allen, Miss Hubbard. (As recalled in 1977 by Olive Floyd) -

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