Martin W. Carr School
- Architect
- Aaron H. Gould
- Year
- 1898
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Boston, MA
The Martin W. Carr School is a four-story H-shaped brick schoolhouse at 25 Atherton Street in Somerville's Spring Hill neighborhood, built in 1898 as a fourteen-classroom elementary school. It was designed by local architect Aaron H. Gould and named for Martin W. Carr, a Somerville manufacturer who served as alderman, city councilor, and school committee member. The school operated until 1980, when it was converted into condominiums.
the building
Carr's factory legacy. Martin Carr's own factory, which made jewelry, novelties, and metal ware, still stands nearby in Davis Square, since converted into lofts.
the style
The building combines Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Neoclassical detailing in its red brick facade.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Aaron H. Gould designed the Martin W. Carr School in 1898; it is the only known surviving work by this local architect.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
nearby
- House at 6 Kent Court
- House at 16–18 Preston Road
- Academy of Arts and Sciences Headquarters
- First Unitarian Church
- C. C. Crowell House
- First Universalist Church