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The First Kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, is the building that housed the first kindergarten in the United States, opened in 1856. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] for its significance to the history of education.
The restored first kindergarten building originally stood at the corner of N. Second and Jones Streets, Watertown, and was later moved to the grounds of the Octagon House in December 1956. The restored building was dedicated on September 15, 1957. The interior, a living room used as a classroom, remains furnished in the period and portrays a ...
In 1871 Blow traveled to New York, where she spent a year being trained at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten, operated by Fröbel devotee Maria Kraus-Boelté.Blow returned to St. Louis in 1873 and opened the nation's first public kindergarten in Des Peres School in Carondelet, [2] which by then had been annexed by the City of St. Louis.
The first public school kindergarten in the state of Wisconsin was established in Manitowoc by Charles F. Viebahn and Emily Richter.
The first American schools in the Thirteen Colonies opened in the 17th century. [8] The first public schools in America were established by the Puritans in New England during the 17th century. Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. [9] Boston Latin School was not funded by tax dollars in its early days, however.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
Louise Plessner Pollock (1833 in Germany – July 24, 1901, at Skyland, Virginia) was an influential early advocate of the kindergarten movement in 19th-century America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born Louise Caroline Frederica Augusta Victoria Wilhelmina von Pless ( Anglicized as Plessner ), she married in 1850 in Dresden to George Henry Pollock, who was ...
He served as Superintendent of Schools from 1868 to 1880, and had a strong influence on the system. With Susan E. Blow in this city, in 1873 he established America's first permanent public kindergarten. While in St. Louis, William Torrey Harris implemented many influential ideas to strengthen both the institution of the public school system and ...