Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1760
The building in the lower part of today’s illustration was built in 1937, and this week the Dorchester Reporter announced that the Roxbury Prep Charter School will expand to the Lucy Stone School building and the Quincy E. Dickerman School building (not pictured).
The building in the upper part of the illustration was constructed between 1918 and 1933, and I am not sure when it was taken down.
http://www.dotnews.com/2012/charter-school-will-expand-two-shuttered-schoolhouses
“After winning approval from the city, Roxbury Prep will be expanding out of its original campus in Mission Hill to two additional sites: the Lucy Stone building on Regina Road and the also-vacant Quincy E. Dickerman School building on Magnolia Street near Uphams Corner.
Roxbury Prep was awarded 1,800 seats by the Commonwealth a year ago February through a state process called charter authorization.
While the school was searching for space last year to accommodate those students both in private real estate and by working with the Boston Public Schools, District, the city was offering three vacant school buildings for lease. Roxbury Prep won its bid to secure leases on the two it will move into soon.
The first of the two additional middle school campuses actually opened last September, but its 75 fifth-graders have been meeting at a temporary location at 214 Harvard Ave. On March 7, Roxbury Prep staff found out they would be moving into the Lucy Stone building.
Today, the Mission Hill campus has 240 students in the sixth through eighth grades. Beginning in September, there will be 300 students there in Grades 5 through 8, 150 students in Grades 5 and 6 at the Lucy Stone campus, and 75 fifth-graders in the Dickerman building. …”
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