In 1833, a committee of local citizens raised $1,250 to build this structure for a new school, where tuition was $3 per eleven-week term for English studies and $4 per term for Classics. An announcement for the 1839-40 school year portrayed Salisbury Academy as a pleasantly situated seminary in the central village of a town valued for the beauty and grandeur of its natural scenery and removed from the noise and temptations of major business thoroughfares, with boarding available on reasonable terms in respectable families. It promised kind yet strict and faithful discipline, accurate and thorough instruction in both English and Classical departments, and a preceptor living nearby who devoted himself to the instruction, oversight, and paternal watchfulness of the pupils. The Academy later became a tax-supported public school and continued in that role until 1929. Its last teacher, Polly Miner, who taught first and second grades, later remembered Les Hoysradt, Senior, as the janitor who tended the stove at the back of the room, banked it at night, and brought water from the kettle, while the bathroom stood outside at the back and children had to put on coats and boots in winter. After its years as a school ended, the building served as a meeting house and then as a courthouse, and it has been restored by The Salisbury Association.