From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
High School Building, Bristol Conn. 102.
Image of an imposing, stylish, brick institutional building. This image is part of a series made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to cover New England or upstate New York. The quest for images that would be saleable as postcards resulted in the documentation of small towns and small town life at the turn of the 20th century. As the photos were shot, the glass plates were promptly sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. "Bristol High School" in terra cotta Neo-Gothic letters identify this Richardsonian Romanesque brick structure built in 1890. It was designed by Waterbury, CT architect Theodore Peck, and served as the city's high school for a few decades, when a growing population required a larger facility elsewhere.
