Built in 1915-16 to a design by Harry S. Coombs, it was one of the first junior high school buildings in New England, and is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture.

The building is now apartments and a community center, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September 2010.

Its original main entrance faces southwest toward Hampshire Street, and is distinguished by a projecting section with four two-story engaged Doric columns.

The bays between the columns have keystoned rounded-arch openings, with the center one housing the recessed entrance.

The present building was built in 1915 to a design by Harry S. Coombs,[4] a distant successor to Fassett & Stevens.