Dorchester Illustration no. 2305 Robinson School
The Robinson School was located where there is now a vacant lot on Robinson Street, where pieces of stone and fence indicate what was once there.
Postcard. Caption on front: The Robinson School, Dorchester, Mass. Photo by J.V. Hartman. Postally unused. On verso: Pub. by J.V. Hartman & Co., Boston, Mass. Series 64.
This building, named the Benjamin Cushing School, opened in 1897 and closed in 1973. It was demolished soon thereafter.
The detail from the 1933 atlas shows the location.
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