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I hope this isn't a photo of Freeman School! If it is my heart is broken!

Posted: 12/31/2001

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sure looks like it

Posted: 12/31/2001

What was the Year?
1974

What was the Season?
summer

Can you name the location?
it looks like houghton school or brayton school

Posted: 01/01/2002

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Must be Houghton then, there was NO house behind Brayton, at least when I went there in 1960-61...

Posted: 01/03/2002

Can you name the location?
houghton school

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thats houghton school because the house behind it is on cleveland ave

Posted: 02/09/2002

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It is not Brayton School. There was no house visible from the school as there is in this picture. I attended all eight grades in that school graduating in 1951. I remember Miss O'Hearn in the eight grade What a teacher. I started out with a couple of D's in her grade and wound up with straight A's. She was a whiz in teaching English. To this day, I am very picky about the use of the english language in speaking and writing. So I guess this must be either Johnson, Houghton or Freeman. The neighborhod were wonderful. The new larger schools leave a lot to be desired.

Posted: 01/16/2003

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This is Freeman School you can tell by the house behine the school. It is still there. They should of never brought this school down. It could of been houseing

Posted: 05/12/2003

What was the Year?
1977

Can you name the location?
Houghton school

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Does anyone rembember playing wiffle ball at houghton school? this photo is the dismanteling of a place i spent many wasted hours as a teenager. my brothers made money stacking bricks after the school was brought down. the house in the background is on clevlend ave. and i think it was the Babeu home. Id ahve to put the year at 1977 because i remember the school being there when i was in high school.

Posted: 11/29/2003

Can you name the location?
Houghton School

Comments...
Way back! Summer activities. Playground for children with supervision, I recall Patricia Charbineau (Charbys market owned by her dad), lived on Kemp Ave. across from park, was in charge. Swings, teeter, horseshoes, ball park plus educational help. We played ball many times there and touch football. Winter skating rink was great. Too bad our children don't have these wonderful opportunities. Pat married James McDonnough..

Posted: 08/12/2004

What was the Season?
winter

Can you name the location?
Houghton School

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Since there are no leaves on the trees behind the house in the background, I think it was the beginning of winter. Looks like a dusting of snow on the ground. I don't think this is Freeman because there looks like there is a door bricked up on the side of the building and Freeman School didn't have a side door there. Freeman also had a driveway that ran behind the school and a basketball court where the crane is standing. I agree that it is too bad that they tore down that school. I really miss seeing it. I really enjoyed my kindergarten and junior high years there.

Posted: 08/12/2004

What was the Season?
winter

Can you name the location?
Houghton School

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This is definitely not Freeman. Go to Archives and look under July 29th to see a picture of Freeman School. This has to be Houghton. It can't be summer because there are no leaves on the trees in the background plus it looks like a dusting of snow on the ground. I, too, remember Freeman School fondly and truly miss the old neighborhood schools. It is a shame that they couldn't have found a use for those old buildings and preserved their historical value. I would have loved to show my children where I went to kindergarten and junior high.

Posted: 08/12/2004

Can you name the location?
Houghton School

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NOT Freeman School. Freeman school was demolished in 1979 because the City never did anything with it. Anyone who wanted the building wanted the whole park for parking. It was sad. It would have made great housing. In the end part of the granite pieces started to fall from the building so the city tore it down.

Posted: 07/21/2009

What was the Season?
winter

Comments...
This is not Freeman school. I lived across the street from the school. The school had a basket ball court in the front, had brick all the way to the base and was not torn down in the winter. We have pix of it being taken down.

Posted: 12/29/2011

What was the Year?
1973

What was the Season?
winter

Can you name any of the people?
mike steele

Can you name the location?
Green River williamstown

Posted: 01/30/2014
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