Lock-up school

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

Photo of a group of students and teachers standing outside the former "Lock-up school" that was once located on Water Street South.

The Lock-up school was in fact St. Marys first Town Hall and was built in 1855.

Description of building from Dr. J.R. Stanley in the booklet "Our St. Marys Schools":
"This was a two storey building facing the river and when completed furnished accommodation for the village fire fighting apparatus, also for the cell used to confine culprits who fell into the hands of the police. This latter feature gave the buildings its well known name, the 'Lock-up'. The upper floor which was reached by a covered-in wooden stairway on the outside of the wall, was used as a public hall. The unsatisfactory condition of the school accommodation suggested the advisability of securing this hall as a school room and in 1855 Miss Green brought her class of girls to this building, which they continued to occupy until the erection of the Central School a couple of years later."

This building was used as a school until 1908 when it was torn down.

See Early St. Marys by L.W. Wilson and L.R. Pfaff (#6) for more information.

Notes

Condition: Copy is good.

Dimensions

Width: 21 cm
Height: 15.4 cm

Image Dimensions

Image Width: 15cm
Image Height: 14.3cm

Subject(s)

Buildings
Schools
Students

Local identifier

1301ph

Collection

St. Marys Museum photo collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2569478174281 Longitude: -81.1433565616608

Donor

From the St. Marys Journal Argus reproduction book

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Recommended Citation

"Lock-up school." St. Marys Museum, 1301ph.

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