The Black River Academy Museum is a historic school building located on High Street in the village of Ludlow, Vermont.
The school was chartered in 1835 and served as the village high school until 1938. The school building is a stately Richardsonian Romanesque structure built in 1888. Since 1972 it housed the Black River Academy Museum, a local history museum managed by the Black River Historical Society. The Academy building is a three-story masonry structure, built with load-bearing brick placed on a granite foundation. It has a gabled roof with projection hip-roofed parts.
It has a four-story tower at one corner covered by a pyramidal roof. Most windows are set in round-arched openings. Some of notable alumni of the Black River Academy are U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; Rotary founder Paul P. Harris; Vermont Governor William W. Stickney and others. After the school moved out, the house was used for a while as a convalescent home.
14 High St, Ludlow, VT 05149, Phone: 802-228-5050