Greenwich Landmarks Series  The Original North Street School
quintard house  Committed to the education of their children,
the early settlers in Greenwich built the first school house in
Sound Beach as early as 1667. By 1756, there were nine school
districts in town, including a school on North Street.  In 1803
the decision was made to erect a new building on North Street
for first to eighth graders. A public school committee composed
of Amos Hobby, Jonathan Rundall, or Rundle and William J. Mead
bought a small plot of land from Horton Reynolds as a school
site. At the time, the property was directly across from the
Abraham Reynolds homestead.  The building, a residence now for
more than two centuries, is the oldest structure built as a
school that still stands in Greenwich.  The Hobby family has
been represented in Greenwich since John Hobby arrived in the
1650s and became one of the original patentees of the town. The
name has been variously spelled Huby, Hubbe, Hoby and Habby.
Hobby married Sarah Grey and