Winsor School
private, college-preparatory day school in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Winsor School is a private college-preparatory day school for girls in the Longwood neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was established in 1886 and educates girls in grades 5–12.
History
Founding
In 1886, Mary Pickard Winsor started Miss Winsor's School for eight girls (most of whom were her cousin's daughter and friends) in the Back Bay. She had previously taught at her mother's school in suburban Winchester, and began sending her own students to colleges in 1893; enrollment reached 99 girls by 1900 and 225 by 1910. According to the school website, Winsor "wanted to prepare women to be self-supporting, and hoped they would be competent, responsible, and generous-minded." The school moved between various locations in the Back Bay until 1910. One of the old Winsor buildings is featured on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
In 1910, a group of wealthy Boston parents built Mary Winsor a brand-new campus in the Longwood neighborhood, at which point the school was renamed to The Winsor School. Designed by prominent Boston architect R. Clipston Sturgis, the campus included a library, science laboratories, art studios, and athletic facilities. The well-equipped campus reflected Winsor's strong base of support among Boston's ultra elite. Mary Winsor's mother's family were eighth-generation Harvard, and Mary's grandfather Henry Ware occupied the Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard from 1805 to 1840.
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