West School

Burlington, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The West School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 106 Bedford Street in Burlington, Massachusetts, built in 1794–5 when the area was still part of Woburn. Originally sited in what is now Simonds Park at the town center, it was relocated in 1839 to serve the western portion of town and functioned as a public school until 1897. A well-preserved example of Federal and Greek Revival styling, it is the sole surviving school building from four constructed by Woburn in eighteenth-century Burlington. After a period of use as a garage, the building was restored by the local historical society in 1964 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.