The Academy Hall building in Clinton was built in 1801 by twenty men of the town for use as a school to prepare local students for college. The teacher lived upstairs and taught in classrooms downstairs. The Academy later passed to town ownership and continued as a school and was used for a time for town meetings. The building was remodeled in the Italianate style later in the nineteenth century. Later leased to the local Grange, the Academy is now used by the Clinton Parks and Recreation Department.
The Academy, Clinton (1801)
The Clinton Academy building is now home to a local non-profit youth theater company called Kidz Konnection. Here is their website: http://kidzkonnectionct.org/