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Grove Street School

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1874–1876, E. L. Angell. 312 Grove St. (at Bernon St.)
  • (Photographs by Sterling Vernon)
  • (Photographs by Sterling Vernon)

In a characteristically Victorian manner, the simple shed-roofed porch of this school makes rhetoric of simple structure and function. The shed roof folds into a gable hood over the stairs; pairs of chamfered posts and bracketing extend the hood toward the visitor; diagonal struts on either side provide triangular fields for cut-stencil ornament and tongue-and-groove boarding. It makes a little ceremony of the act of entering this otherwise plain brick building, relieved, except at its door, only by a bracketed cornice and a minuscule belfry. Whereas the later Kendrick Avenue School ( WO3) responded to a specific program of school requirements—differentiating the central classroom block from the entrances, articulating current preoccupations with sexual difference, and providing a conspicuous tower for the school bell—the older Grove Street School proclaims no more than its general institutional character. Still in use, it has been thoroughly remodeled inside.

Writing Credits

Author: 
William H. Jordy et al.
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Citation

William H. Jordy et al., "Grove Street School", [Woonsocket, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-WO12.

Print Source

Buildings of Rhode Island, William H. Jordy, with Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 227-227.

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