Our Reservoir Avenue Elementary School is 100 years old this year.
We Invite anyone who ever attended our school to a reunion
Our Reservoir Avenue Elementary School is 100 years old this year.
We Invite anyone who ever attended our school to a reunion
The Closest elementary school to this neighborhood was on Elmwood ave., near Roger Williams Ave., where the Dunkin Donuts is now located.
The city awarded a contract for $104,536, to construct the new Reservoir Ave. School, to the William H. Hamlin & Sons Company.
This is the current Building, with the classrooms for grades 2 to 5, and the office space. (In those days, elementary schools went up to grade 6).
This is the current cafetaria & gymnasium, and classroms for K and 1.
Reservoir was a neighborhood school. All students lived in the Reservoir Triangle, and nobody rode a school bus to get here.
Students walked to school in the morning: walked home for lunch: walked back to school for the afternoon: and walked home at the end of the day. Older Students escorted the younger ones to and from school.
Over the years, there have been unsuccessful attempts to close the school. (see the 1963 letter from the PTA president, Evelyn Bradley, opposing such a plan). The school is still here today, after 100 years, and hopefully for many more years.