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Question: Where Was the Palmer School?
Along Humphrey Street across from what later became Temple Israel.
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A reader asked us where the Palmer School was located. We had featured the Palmer, a photogrpah of a classroom, in our last Then and Now contest.
We turned to local historian Lou Gallo for information on the school.
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Lou said it was located across the street, on a diagonal, from the Palmer Estate home.
Later, the Temple Israel was built on the Palmer property.
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Lou said that the author of the Swampscott history book Era of the Summer Estates, Dorothy Anderson, had talked about school children marching in a parade from the Palmer School to its replacement, the Stanley School.
The was built in 1929.
Lou suspects that the Palmer was torn down not long after it closed.
That area was developed into residential housing in the 1930s, before World War II, he said.
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