From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2008.19.115643
Limerick,Maine C: 1910-15 Limerick School "The Limerick Consolidated School...replaced the three-room Longfellow (or Leavitt) School on School St. ...[and] was built on land from the George A. Gove estate (house still stands to the right out of picture) and finished just in time for the Fall term. It was built of wood and housed children grades 1-12 and cost $52000 with more than half paid for by Charles Moulton. It had eight classrooms, a stage and a laboratory. The last senior class graduated in 1969 when SAD 57 was formed and the Massabesic High School completed in Waterboro. Limerick maintained an elementary school here until the mid 1980s before building a new shared LINE (Limerick-Newfield and on the town line) school in the mid 1980s. The building survives today as the Limerick Municipal Building". - Thomas LePage The building is an architectural curiosity as it is based on a masonry type, signaled by its type, size, design, and function, and features such as quoins and wall details suggesting stone, or at least cement. Yet the entire structure is wood, and the use of wood shingles for cladding instead of smooth boards is an unexpected use of material. From a distance, perhaps the shingles suggested rusticated cut stone.
