Pinehurst School

With rapid residential development in Pinehurst in the 1910s, a new school was needed in the area. Attempts were made to resurrect the decrepit Shawsheen Schoolhouse on Cook St, but ultimately, the two-room wooden Pinehurst School on Boston Road was built in 1922 and opened its doors in January 1923. Within just four years, portable classrooms were attached to it. In 1931, the six-classroom brick Ditson School opened in the same lot to relieve the overcrowding. The Pinehurst School suffered a fire in 1943, and the two first-grade classrooms it housed were transferred to the Talbot. It was suggested at Town Meeting to tear down the school and make an addition to the Ditson instead. Due to the war, acquiring the construction materials would bring considerable cost, and it was decided to repair the Pinehurst School instead. After the war, a twelve-classroom addition was constructed in 1949. In 1951, it was voted to move the Pinehurst School from the easterly side of the Ditson to the southerly side and install heating. With continued overcrowding in the Ditson, the Town Meeting maintained the building as a possible overflow location until 1953. The Ditson received further additions in the early 1950s and the Pinehurst School was finally razed in 1958 at no cost to the town.

References

1. Pinehurst School Fire, October 13, 1943
2. Pinehurst School Reopened, September 1954
3. Pinehurst School Removed, 1958