Bentley School.

Abstract

SV264 — Nelson Dionne Collection. View from down Bentley Street of the Bentley Primary School at 50 Essex Street. Published by Charles W. Stiff, Danvers, Mass., 1868. Built 1860-61, with multiple floors, a mansard roof, rooster weather vane, bell, and a cupola, the Bentley School served in its role as primary school for about a century until being replaced in the early 1960s. The top two floors were taken off, and it then became a branch of the Salem Public Library as the Gardner Maynard Jones Memorial Library. Today, it is now home to condominiums.