The former High School in Meriden, which now serves as the Board of Education building, was built in 1885. The building is on Liberty Street, near the Town Hall, and is a good example of the Romanesque style, with a prominent Roman-style rounded arch entrance. The school had actually begun classes in 1881, as the New Central School, which rented the second floor of the German-American School on Liberty Street before the 1885 school building was completed.
Old Meriden High School (1885)
My mom, age 93 now,attended and
graduated this school in the early 1930’s.
She’s still sharp as a tack!
She also attended Yale for a bit
during the great depression, so MHS
must have been a great school!
Are there surviving records of students that attended there? I am a family historian and have several generations of one family in Meriden and wonder if any of them went there.
There are some! I am on the board of the Meriden Historical Society and I know for sure that we have old annuals (yearbooks) from Meriden High School. Several members have been working on a printed card catalog of everyone who went to school and died in Meriden, using yearbooks and obituaries, which is organized by last name. Visit our website http://www.meridenhistoricalsociety.org for contact information, or visit our Research Center at 1090 Hanover Street in Meriden on Wednesdays from 2-4. Our Curator, Allen, will be a great resource for you.
It’s great place to see and look like awesome moments thanks for sharing…….
Ancestry has many of the yearbooks online. I found a photo of a distant relative for the year 1898 when he graduated. If you go into the search tab and look to the right they have U.S. School Yearbooks and click on that, it will give you a place to enter the persons name and other data. It has been a blessing in my genealogical research.
I have a yearbook from 1918, I wanted to know if you would like to have it?