Woods Hole School, Woods Hole

Name: Woods Hole School
Address: Woods Hole, United States

#4 among attractions in Woods Hole

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The Woods Hole School is a historic school building at 24 School Street in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States within the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof capped by a two-stage cupola with belfry. A gabled two-story section projects to the front, with a shed-roof porch sheltering the entry to its side. It has trim bands extending around the building at the tops and bottoms of its windows. The building, the second school built on the site, was built as a two-room structure in 1870, and enlarged to four classrooms in 1885. The architect for the expansion was Samuel D. Kelley and the contractor was Mead, Mason & Company of Concord, New Hampshire. ()

Built: 1870 (154 years ago)Coordinates: 41°31'30"N, 70°40'8"W

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Upper Cape (Woods Hole)Woods Hole United States

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Woods Hole School – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Nobska Light, Woods Hole Science Aquarium, West Chop Light, Falmouth Inner Light.

1 miSE
Lighthouse, Vernacular architecture
Nobska Light, Woods Hole
25 min walk • Perched on the rocky shoreline at the southern tip of Cape Cod, Nobska Light stands as a beacon of maritime history in the quaint village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This iconic lighthouse, with its distinctive white and black structure and a classic red lantern...
~1460 ftW
Aquarium, Park, Zoo
Woods Hole Science Aquarium, Woods Hole
8 min walk • The Woods Hole Science Aquarium is a small public aquarium in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by the US government and operated by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Marine Biological Laboratory.
4.7 miSE
Lighthouse, Vernacular architecture
West Chop Light, Tisbury
120 min walk • West Chop Light is a lighthouse station located at the entrance of Vineyard Haven Harbor in Tisbury, Massachusetts on the northern tip of West Chop, a few miles from the village of Vineyard Haven.
3.3 miE
Lighthouse
Falmouth Inner Light, Falmouth
86 min walk • Falmouth Inner Light is a lighthouse listed on the Coast Guard's web site "Historic Light Station Information & Photography: Massachusetts" and the photograph shown was provided there, but there is no other information available on it.
3.2 miNE
41°33'10"N • 70°37'8"W
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Falmouth
83 min walk • Sacred and religious sites, Church
3.3 miNE
41°33'18"N • 70°37'11"W
Falmouth Museums on the Green, Falmouth
84 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
3.9 miNE
Cemetery
Oak Grove Cemetery, Falmouth
100 min walk • The Oak Grove Cemetery is an historic cemetery on Jones Road in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
5.7 miSE
Museum, History museum
Aquinnah Cultural Center, Tisbury
147 min walk • Aquinnah Cultural Center is a non-profit museum and education center, based in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, dedicated to preserving and promoting Aquinnah Wampanoag history, culture and contributions on Martha’s Vineyard.
5.7 miSE
41°27'33"N • 70°36'14"W
Vineyard Haven Public Library, Tisbury
145 min walk • Library
3.4 miNE
41°33'10"N • 70°36'51"W
Falmouth Public Library, Falmouth
88 min walk • Library
3.4 miNE
Cemetery
Poor House and Methodist Cemetery, Falmouth
86 min walk • The Poor House and Methodist Cemetery is an historic poor house and cemetery on 744 Main Street in Falmouth, Massachusetts. It was established in 1809 and served the poor and mentally ill from 1812 until 1963.

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Which popular attractions are close to Woods Hole School?

Nearby attractions include Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole (4 min walk), Woods Hole Science Aquarium, Woods Hole (8 min walk).