Court St.
MACRIS NWB.AT · area form, 1973
Court Street runs one block from High Street to Washington Street, between Market and Green Streets and nearly opposite the Court House. It was accepted as a laid-out street on 28 March 1836. The large houses on the Market Street side, beginning with the Toppan house at the High Street corner, built before 1800 by a Dr. Adams, had become apartments by 1973, the Toppan house in 1971.
The form records the Female High School, built in 1844 at the corner of Court and Washington Streets, as the first girls' high school in the country. The First Christian Society, under the Rev. Daniel P. Pike, held services in its meeting house on the street until 1873, when the Church of the Immaculate Conception acquired it and later remodeled it as a parochial school, opened in 1882. The church also used the George T. Colby House, bought in 1879, as a convent and then a children's home; it was razed in 1933. No. 7, the rectory, was rebuilt after an 1881 fire.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
