Item 25642 - Pownal Hall, Pownal State School, ca. 1937
- Item 25642 - Pownal Hall, Pownal State School, ca. 1937
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- Item 25642
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Image Info Pownal Hall, a residence for boys, opened at Pownal State School in 1926, about the time the facility changed its name from Maine School for the Feeble-Minded.
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The building housed 150 beds for boys.
Superintendent Stephen E. Vosburgh also added a physician, a music teacher, a first-grade teacher, stenographer, plumber, chef, seven day attendants and two night attendants to the ever-growing institution in New Gloucester.
