| Felton Street School | |
| Location: | 20 Felton Street, Hudson, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates: | 42.3929°N -71.5695°W |
| Built: | 1882 |
| Architect: | Fuller & Delano |
| Architecture: | Gothic, Queen Anne |
| Added: | February 27, 1986 |
| Refnum: | 86000275 |
The Felton Street School is a historic school building built in 1882 located at 20 Felton Street in Hudson, Massachusetts, United States. The -story brick-and-stone structure served as the town's high school until 1957. Today it is a residential apartment building. The building's design and ornamentation is typical of Queen Anne and Stick style architecture. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Architects Fuller & Delano designed the Felton Street School.[1] Construction costs totaled $15,000.[1] It opened in 1882 as the new Hudson High School and served in that capacity until 1957.[1] In 1901 the originally four-room school was expanded to eight rooms.[1] Local merchants published and sold postcards depicting the Felton Street School during the early 1900s.[2] [3]
When the Hudson and Massachusetts Historical Commissions inventoried the building as a historic property in 1978, they described its use as both "mental health facility" and "vacant," noting recent vandalism.[1] Since then the building has been renovated into 12 loft-style apartments.[4]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 27, 1986.
The Felton Street School's plan is T-shaped.[1] The building's foundation is granite.[1] Its front façade has a projecting three-story gabled pavilion with large brackets at the roof corners and applied Stick style decoration—including a rising sun motif—in the gable.[1] A portico supported by similar large brackets shelters the main entrance set in this pavilion.[1] Six-over-six triple-paned rectangular windows punctuate the structural brick exterior walls on the front and side façades, while the rear façade has arched windows.[1] The window sills and lintels are made of brownstone.[1] The detailed brick cornice is corbelled and the building's chimneys have Queen Anne style ornamentation.[1] The school's original hipped slate roof contains hipped dormers also sheathed with slate.[1]