WDT: Purcell looking to buy Watertown schools property

   Looks like the property that once housed Butterfield School will be in private hands soon as reports are that Purcell Construction plans to buy the ten acre plot for possible future development.

Former Butterfield School

 

    Butterfield was part of the golden era of education when neighborhood schools were the order the day providing that special link of a school nearby you could walk to. Its not quite as nice today as less density of students and consolidation for economy has meant fewer such schools.
    Back when I was growing up I attended Brookview Elementary School in Irondequoit. It was a short walk and Mom could literally see the school from the corner where we lived.
    Now so many youngsters get their common core after a long bus ride to an education gulag miles from home.
     Back to Butterfield. It is good to see Mark Purcell so active in local projects as his successful firm provides a motivated native of Watertown the means and inclination to improve things. Hopefully the site of the former school will be a place for families and kids again.
Watertown Daily Times | Purcell looking to buy Watertown schools property