{"id":18935,"date":"2015-06-03T06:35:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T10:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18935"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:15:17","slug":"fire-at-st-marys-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/06\/03\/fire-at-st-marys-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at St. Mary’s School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the morning of January 30, 1953, there was a disastrous fire at St. Mary’s School in Willimantic, CT. The fire, which originated\u00a0in the boiler room, raged for five hours and destroyed the building.\u00a0I found these going through some of the old family photos, threw them on the scanner and cleaned them up. I\u00a0think that everyone in our town has one or two of these photos of the fire lying around in a box or an album. The tight-knit community banded together, raised money, and the new school was dedicated in 1955. There’s one more photo behind the cut.\u00a0<\/span>
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On the morning of January 30, 1953, there was a disastrous fire at St. Mary’s School in Willimantic, CT. The fire, which originated\u00a0in the boiler room, raged for five hours and destroyed the building.\u00a0I found these going through some of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,3113],"tags":[1879,1867,3571,3570],"class_list":["post-18935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-photo-restoration-2","tag-1879","tag-fire","tag-st-marys-school","tag-willimantic-fire-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4Vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19035,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/06\/21\/happy-fathers-day-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":18935,"position":0},"title":"Happy Father’s Day!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"June 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Holiday"","block_context":{"text":"Holiday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/holiday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dad1950s.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dad1950s.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dad1950s.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":38406,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/inside-bills-no-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":18935,"position":1},"title":"Inside Bill’s No. 7","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"August 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s another scanned 35mm negative in the Photo Elective category. 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