Donate
Help Restore the Schoolhouse
Help us restore and preserve West Street School, Southington, CT's colonial one room Schoolhouse. Nearly 100 years ago the original West Street School Association began preserving the building and stories of then living alumni going back to the early 1800s.
Make a Gift
Make a Donation
Use the link below to make a tax deductible donation to Friends of West Street School Association, Inc. a non-profit 501(c)(3).
Federal Non-Profit ID # 41-5046347
Or Donate by mailing a check payable to FOWSSA, PO Box 293, Southington, CT 06489
The Work Ahead
What Your Donation Does
Donations restore, repair, and maintain the schoolhouse.
The building shows its age honestly: paint is peeling and alligatored on the clapboards, window sashes and shutters are weathered and damaged, and the woodshed's board doors have rotted through. We have no paid staff. 100% of your donation helps restore and maintain the school.
Why It Matters
Worth Saving
The West Street School is Southington's oldest surviving school building.
- Taught its first students
- 1750
- In service as a schoolhouse until
- 1945
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Dec 1, 1988
- National Register reference number
- #88002689
The St. Thomas Lesson
Don't Let This Happen to West St. School
St. Thomas Church — built 1865, demolished 2025. Southington has already watched one landmark come down. The West Street School doesn't have to share that fate.
See the Restoration Effort
