The Bowditch School is an historic school building at 80–82 Green Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The three-story brick-and-granite Classical Revival building was designed by Harrison Henry Atwood, a prominent local architect, and was built in 1892. Its main facade has a projecting three-part pavilion, with square entry openings at the base, and round-arch windows at the top level, with a modillioned cornice. It is named for Nathaniel Bowditch, a noted early 19th-century astronomer and mathematician.[2]
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| Location | 80-82 Green St., Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°18′42.2″N 71°6′34.2″W / 42.311722°N 71.109500°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1892 |
| Architect | Harrison H. Atwood |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 90001145[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 3, 1990 |
By 1981 Boston Public Schools stopped using the facility, and the city government deemed it excess to the city's needs in July of that year.[3]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Bowditch School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- ^ "Bowditch School - National Register Materials". Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
The Bowditch School, declared a surplus property by the City of Boston in July of 1981, has been vacant since that time.
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