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Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Caroline Boechman, June 2010.
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Notes (historical):
In 1884 Kate Carroll founded the Miss Carroll School which operated at 78 Temple Street in West Newton, Massachusetts until it became inadequate. The building was known as "The Little Red School House" and the "Brown Cottage." The present building at 147 Prince Street, West Newton, was built in 1902. Miss Rosalie Carroll succeeded her aunt as Principal and after Miss Rosalie's death in 1938, Miss Mary Barbour, who had been associated with the School since 1900, carried on until 1952. List of Principals: Miss Kate Carroll, 1884-1921 Miss Rosalie Carroll, 1921-1938 Miss Mary S. Barbour, 1938-1951 Mrs. Frederick E. Sears, Jr. 1951-1958 Mrs. Roscoe E. Brown, 1958 - An obituary from the Newton TAB newspaper, 11-10-04, for Kathryn "Kitty" Sears age 94 states that in 1948 she returned to teaching at the Carroll School in West Newton. In 1953, she and her husband bought the school which she ran until 1966. Her husband was Frederick Edmund Sears who died in 1982. From the City Directories, it appears that there was a school there well into the 1980s. In 1985 it was a Community Center for Children with Special Learning Disabilities. Later this Center became the Carroll School and moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts, but it never had any affiliation to Miss Carroll School, except that the Carroll School (learning disabilities) acquired the property in West Newton where Miss Carroll School had been on Prince Street.
