Brighton High School

Yesterday we saw the front of the Taft Middle School, which at one time was Brighton HS. When the school outgrew the Taft it moved across the street to this building. As you can see, the present High School is adjacent to St. Elizabeth's Hospital.


Below is a better view of the front of the Brighton High School building on Warren Ave.

Taft Middle School

This is the front of the Taft Middle School in Brighton, one of Boston's neighborhoods. The school is named after William Howard Taft the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930). He is the only person to have served in both offices.

Checking Wikipedia I discovered that Brighton is named after the town of Brighton in the English city of Brighton and Hove. For its first 160 years Brighton was part of Cambridge and was known as “Little Cambridge." Throughout much of its early history it was a rural town with a significant commercial center at its east end. Brighton separated from Cambridge in 1807 after a bridge dispute and was later annexed to Boston, in 1874.

Some notable residents of Brighton were Michael Bloomberg, current mayor of New York; John Krasinski, star of the U.S. version of The Office; and Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and many other Boston based novels.

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Thanks to Jack in Hartford for finding some information on the sculpture in front of the school. It is Harold Connolly, a four time Olympian who set many national and world records in the Hammer throw. Connolly went to this school when it was Brighton High School, which is now located across the street. Read more about Harold Connolly.

UMASS Boston

University of Massachusetts Boston, one of five campuses of the state university system, is located on a 175-acre tract on Columbia Point peninsula, which it shares with the John F. Kennedy Library, and the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum.

Boston Latin School

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