1746 Restoration
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The Early Childhood Sanctuary at the Mile Away School’s 1746 Farmhouse
Give today to help us raise $200,000 and give our youngest students their own special place to learn.
$40,000 — HVAC System Upgrade
$35,000 — Fire Alarm & Fire Sprinkler Systems
$20,000 — ADA-Accessible Bathroom & Kitchen Sink Construction
$20,000 — ADA Access Architectural Plans
$20,000 — Mechanical Engineering Plans
$20,000 — ADA-Accessible Interior Doorways
$40,000 — New Egress to Dedicated Back Garden Space
$15,000 — Historic Paint, Trim Restoration, and Finishing
Quiet Cozy Nooks
The charm of the 1746 Farmhouse includes learning nooks for reading and educational games. In the windows you’ll see bullseye glass, the distinctive circular center of hand-blown crown glass, that was often saved and repurposed into decorative windowpanes in the colonial days - a beautiful piece of early glassmaking history. We’ll be preserving these to create a beautiful stained class panel for our entryway.
Nature-STEAM Lab
Just outside the doors of the mini-atelier will be a nature-STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math) lab where children can explore learning through their five senses. Children will pump water through winding channels, experiment with ramps and pulleys, build towering structures, and discover how things work. In our K–2 Nature-LAB, a garden becomes a science experiment, sunlight creates art, and everyday materials inspire invention.
Mini Atelier
The natural light and easy outdoor access make the mini-atelier the perfect space for creative expression, building, designing, planning, and integrating indoors and outdoors. Here, children can get messy, take things apart, try again, and turn their own ideas into discoveries, as well as find quite spaces to focus, construct, and work through the processes of thinking with materials.
Family-Style Kitchen
In our K–2 family-style kitchen, children will knead bread, invent recipes, and discover why dough rises or ingredients change when heated. Measuring becomes math, recipes become reading adventures, and unfamiliar smells invite new questions. Each day, children work together to prepare snacks for their friends, experiment with ingredients, and discover that cooking is as much about learning as it is about caring for others.
Where Childhood Wonder Meets Living History
At Mile Away School, we believe children deserve a place where they feel safe, valued, and excited to learn. Our vision is to transform a historic 1746 home into a warm, welcoming learning environment designed especially for our youngest students in kindergarten through second grade.
Imagine a school where the smell of freshly baked bread fills the air, children gather for stories beside a nearly 300-year-old fireplace, and every corner feels as inviting as Grandma’s house. Here, history isn't something children simply read about. It's something they can touch, explore, and experience every day, with gardens, outdoor classrooms, and nature waiting just beyond the door.
Together, we can preserve a piece of Milford's history while creating a place where children will develop a lifelong love of learning.