10/13/2026
We love our beautiful historic home in Downtown Westminster, Maryland ! 🩵
About 1885 a brick school was erected on Center Street, just north of East Green Street. Known as Central Hall, the school was one story high and housed five classrooms: one for each of the first, second, third, and fourth grades, and a large central room for the fifth and sixth grades.
In 1899, a new school was built on the Central Hall site. This housed a high school and all the elementary grades of the east end of the city until 1918 when the Board of Education bought the Dallas mansion at 154 East Green Street. At that time, the elementary grades moved to the Dallas mansion while the high school remained at Central Hall. In 1936, a new high school opened on Longwell Avenue. When the high school students moved to the new facility, the younger students returned to the old Center Street school.
When the new Westminster High School opened on Washington Road in 1976, the middle school students moved to the Longwell Avenue building which was renamed East Middle School. At that time, the Center Street building was closed though the Board of Education retained ownership of the building until 1985. Since then it has housed a number of businesses including a restaurant, an inn, and a fitness club, and is currently home to a dress shop, Love It at Stella's Bridal and Fashions!
📸 Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Carroll County