As most of you know, School Street was so named long before Consolidated School was built. There was a little yellow brick schoolhouse on School Street from 1820-1868. It sat at 6 School Street, where the red dormered gambrel cape now stands. The District # 4 schoolhouse shows up on the 1856 map but was gone by the time the 1872 map was printed. Next door at 8 School St stood an early Meetinghouse by 1816. It was purchased as a home by the Wescott Family before the 1856 map was printed. On the other side of the brick schoolhouse site, at 4 School Street, stands the 1811 house built by Samuel Davis for Oliver Hodgdon. Across School Street at #5 stands the house that Samuel Davis built for John Cromwell in 1813. The Baptist Parsonage was built in 1872 at 15 School Street. We have one of the occupants of the parsonage, Pastor and amateur photographer, Rev. Frank Lamb, to thank for many of the pictures he took of his neighborhood in the 1890s. Henry Parsons donated a playground and athletic field to the Town of Kennebunkport in 1915 where the Kennebunkport Baseball Team drew crowds for many years. The adjoining Consolidated School lot was purchased by the town from James McCabe in 1946. Construction of Consolidated School was completed by 1953. The 1874 McCabe farmhouse sits just beyond the playing field on the same side adjoined by the cemetery. Across the street is the old Samuel Wildes Farm that was sold to Henry Hawkins of Boston in 1884. On 1 Nov. 1866, Samuel and Olive Wildes, and others all of Kennebunkport sold for $1725.00 two lots on New Cape Road bounded by Samuel Wildes in Buttonwood Swamp. York Deeds- Vol.301, p.360. School Street was also known as the New Cape Road and after Buttonwood Peat Company was incorporated in 1867, as Buttonwood Swamp Road. A petition to drain Buttonwood Swamp was approved by the town in 1877 and the swamp was drained in 1878-79.