The Thomas Donaghy School is a historic school building at 68 South Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It is a two-story brick structure, roughly rectangular in shape, with a truncated hip roof pierced by hip roof dormers. Sections project on the eastern and western facades of the building. The Romanesque Revival-style school was designed by locally prominent architect Samuel C. Hunt, and built in 1905. It is the city's oldest surviving "modern" school building.[2]
Thomas Donaghy School | |
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Location | 68 South St., New Bedford, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 41°37′33″N 70°55′25″W / 41.62583°N 70.92361°W |
Built | 1905 |
Architect | Samuel C. Hunt |
Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 89000041 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 2, 1989 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Thomas Donaghy School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-16.