Academy Hall (North Yarmouth Academy)

Academy Hall
The building in 2022
Academy Hall (North Yarmouth Academy) is located in Maine
Academy Hall (North Yarmouth Academy)
Academy Hall (North Yarmouth Academy) is located in the United States
Academy Hall (North Yarmouth Academy)
Location129 Main Street, Yarmouth, Maine
Coordinates43°47′59″N 70°11′01″W / 43.7998°N 70.1835°W / 43.7998; -70.1835
Built1848 (177 years ago) (1848)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.75000097
Added to NRHPMarch 4, 1975[1]

Academy Hall is one of the main annex buildings on the campus of North Yarmouth Academy (NYA) in Yarmouth, Maine. Completed in 1848, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[2] It stands immediately to the east of Russell Hall at the corner of Main Street and Bridge Street.[3] The building was originally built for use as a classroom for NYA, which was established in 1814.[2]

The original two-storey wooden 1811 NYA school building was removed a few yards to the adjacent Bridge Street. It stood "just below the residence of the late Charles O. Rowe," the father of William Hutchinson Rowe,[4] roughly where number 28 Bridge Street, built in 1860, is today.[5][6]

The south-facing façade of the building is topped by a Greek Revival belvedere. The east and west side walls of the building are identical. The terrain on which it stands slopes away to the north, towards the Royal River,[7] revealing the above-ground brick foundation on the sides and at the rear.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for North Yarmouth Academy". National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  3. ^ North Yarmouth Academy Campus Legend – North Yarmouth Academy
  4. ^ Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)
  5. ^ Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.20
  6. ^ North Yarmouth Academy – The Cultural Landscape Foundation
  7. ^ Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine, Volume 28 (1915), p. 353
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