South School

Stoneham, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The South School, a two-story wood-frame building in Stoneham, Massachusetts, was constructed around 1857–58 in the Italianate style. Notable for its time, it originally contained four classrooms—two on each floor—when most Massachusetts schoolhouses of that era were single-story structures with minimal classroom space. The building is the best-preserved nineteenth-century schoolhouse in Stoneham and retained its basic form and exterior Italianate features through its long period of academic use into the twentieth century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and now serves as a home for community social services agencies.