- City:
- Warwick, RI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designer:
- William R. Walker & Son
Description
A long, low Colonial Revival school with a portico and pediment. One of the last major commissions of its architects, William R. Walker & Son. Has served as a junior high school since Veterans Memorial was opened in 1955.
Source notes
Page 162, Ironworker, Volume 32 (1932) Page 43, Warwick, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report K-W-1 (RIHPC, 1981)Site originally submitted by John P. on May 11, 2014.
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Louise McDonald
Gerald Mulvey
norm from newfield ave
Does anybody remember Stan Peel or Marilyn Smith from the class of 1954? Would like to acquire your memories of them for Marilyn’s Memorial to be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Thanks!
I went to Aldrich High School in 1967, I was only there for a short time then moved away to Coventry, R.I. What Great memories I have of this wonderful High School, Aldrich High School. Where can a forma Student get there Aldrich High School Pictures that were taken at this school? Thank for; Louise B.
Aldrich High School became Aldrich Junior High School in 1955.
Aldrich was a junior/senior high school until the end of 1955. it was on split sessions in the fall of 1955. warwick veterans high school opened at the beginning of 1956 and aldrich became a junior high school at that time.