Before the school was a school, there was a farm here; well, two farms really, since the South Farmhouse, 100-odd yards to the south, stood on adjacent property. Built about 1790, it was purchased from a Gill poet named Josiah Canning in the fall of 1880 for the planned boys’ school, which opened the following spring. During the eight months between its purchase and the opening of school in May, the house was renovated and enlarged. The first Mount Hermon students lived and learned here and went to work daily on the farm across the street.
29 Purple Road