Girls Trade High School (first) opens.

(Jan.) Architect: George Snell. Originally the Industrial School for Girls, the brick building is located at 232 Centre Street. Founded by the Massachusetts Association of Women Workers, it was incorporated in 1855 “for the purpose of training to good conduct, and instructing in household labor, destitute or neglected girls,” and located initially in Winchester. Sometimes described as the first reform school for girls in Boston, it houses 30 girls from six to 15 years old, most of them orphans or from troubled families. It becomes a Boston public school in 1909, and moves to the former Academy of the Sacred Heart School at 620 Massachusetts Avenue (second) in 1923. It is renamed Trade High School for Girls and moves to Hemenway Street (third) in 1945,* and closes in 1973. The original Centre Street building is purchased by the New Epiphany School in 2011.