Oak Square School | |
Location: | 35 Nonantum St., Boston, Massachusetts |
Coordinates: | 42.3501°N -71.1688°W |
Built: | 1894 |
Architect: | Edmund March Wheelwright |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | November 10, 1980 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 80000465 |
Oak Square School is a historic school building at 35 Nonantum Street in Brighton, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
The school was designed by Edmund March Wheelwright, who designed a wide variety of Boston landmark buildings. It was built in 1894 on the site of Breck Gardens and had a major addition in 1923. When it closed in 1981, it was the last wood schoolhouse in Boston. It was converted to housing in 1984.[1]
It was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1979 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.