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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Weathervane Wednesday - The Clipper Ship

This is another edition of "Weathervane Wednesday".  If you know the name of the mascot for the Newburyport, Massachusetts high school, then this will be an easy weathervane to identify.



The teams at Newburyport high school are named "The Clippers", after the ships that used to be made in the shipyards.  This intricately detailed weathervane is atop the cupola over the main building of the school.




The current building of the Newburyport high school was built in 1935. The campus was designed by the architect Edwin Dodge (1874 - 1938), a native of Newburyport who graduated from MIT in 1897 and the Ecole Nationale Superierure de Beaux Arts in Paris in 1902.  The Newburyport High School was founded in 1889 when the Female High School (1843) merged with the Putnam Free School (1838).


The Newburyport High School website (look for the clipper ship logo!):
https://nhs.newburyport.k12.ma.us/



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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday - The Clipper Ship", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 19, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/06/weathervane-wednesday-clipper-ship.html: accessed [access date]).

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