1896 Ingleside Log (New Milford, Connecticut School For Girls) Historical Yearbook

Very Hard to Find "Ingleside Log"
Many of the Buildings Belonging to The Ingleside School for Girls Now Make Up The Canterbury School Campus at The North End of The Green
181 Pages

This information about the school was published by Hank Waldrop on Genealogy.com
Ingleside School of New Milford, Connecticut, was founded by Mrs. William D. Black (Sarah Sanford Black) in 1890, and became one of the best-known schools for girls in New England, educating girls from about 12 to 17 years of age. Mrs. Black, a New Milford native and widow of a wealthy New York jeweler, acquired Mrs. Blake’s School for Girls and renamed it to Ingleside School, “Ingleside” being old Scotch for “Fireside.” In a nurturing and family-like environment the school came to promote a strong sense of self and team identity emphasizing individual achievement, teamwork, and school pride. The aim of Mrs. Black was to make this a first class institution, reaching the highest standards of personal cultivation including those intellectual, physical, moral and spiritual, preparing girls for whatever life path they should choose, be it home, business, political, or spiritual. She was a pioneer feminist, foreshadowing women’s suffrage, cultivating knowledge, leadership, and independent thinking in her students. Mrs. Black invested much of her leadership, business skills, and money in the school as its owner, manager, and patroness. The school was in operation from 1890 to 1914 and educated young ladies from all over the United States.

In 1890 Ingleside School was opened in a building on the street called Terrace Place, in the center of the town of New Milford. In the next few years, several houses on that street were built or acquired for the school, and together they were dubbed the "cottage campus." In 1895 Mrs. Black took possession of a fine old home, built in 1814 by Senator Perry Smith, on nearby Elm Street. This home, after having been remodeled and used from 1882 to 1897 as a plush summer hotel, was acquired by the school in 1897 and called the Foundation House. Large dormitories, classrooms and servants’ quarters were added on to the Foundation House with accommodations for about fifty students, and the cottage campus was abandoned. In 1904 a new building, called Weantinaug Hall, was acquired by the school and had accommodations for 100 more girls. The school property was steadily developed and expanded until much of what is known as Town Hill was in some manner connected with it. Post-graduates loved the school so much that they founded an alumnae association and in 1906 built an edifice on the grounds for their use and further education. The school flourished until Mrs. Black died on the Isle of Wight, England, in the summer of 1910. Lacking her direction and patronage, Ingleside School gradually declined until it was closed in 1914.

This item was donated to The New Milford Historical Society & Museum for fundraising purposes.

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