The School That Launched a Village / La Scuola Chester Creò il Villaggio

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Thorne Memorial Building, also known as Millbrook Memorial School, was built in 1894 by the four surviving children of Jonathan and Lydia Thorne to honor their parents. In 1895, the Village of Millbrook incorporated to accept their gift of a fully endowed and completely furnished school. This state-of-the-art institution offered both academic and occupational courses and also provided the community with morally uplifting lectures, concerts, and recitals. The building featured an auditorium, ticket booth, and covered entranceway for carriages, and to the rear a small fieldstone structure housed a forge and shop that taught blacksmithing and carpentry to older boys. It remained the public school for grades 7-12 until 1962.

Millbrook, New York · United States