Old Watertown High School
- Architect
- Charles Brigham
- Year
- 1913
- Style
- Tudor Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
Old Watertown High School is a 3½-story brick building at 341 Mount Auburn Street, designed by local architect Charles Brigham and built in 1913. One of Watertown's most imposing public buildings, it served as the city's high school and then, from 1925, its junior high school until the late 1980s, before standing vacant and eventually being converted to housing in the 2000s.
the building
From school to Brigham House. After decades vacant, the building was converted into housing in the 2000s and is now an assisted living facility named Brigham House, after its original architect.
the style
Charles Brigham designed the school in the Tudor, or English, Revival style, giving Watertown one of its most imposing public buildings roughly a mile east of the town center.
More on Tudor Revivalthe architect
Charles Brigham was a local architect; Old Watertown High School, built in 1913, is his documented work here.
significance
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
nearby
- First Baptist Church
- Edmund Fowle House
- Saint John Methodist Episcopal Church
- Town Diner
- Coolidge School
- Watertown Savings Bank