The wooden hotel that served as the school’s first home in Watertown had become a "fire trap" by the 1920s. Once the new infirmary was ready, Warren House was scheduled for demolition to make room for a "new building" [CPT].
"I had forgotten that copies of my old reports were stored the attic," Horace Taft wrote in his memoir. "As the wreckers went to work with a vengeance, those copies were scattered far and wide. The boys picked them up and were interested to find that my style and severity were still what they had always been. One boy was immensely pleased to find a copy of a letter which I had written to his grandfather about his father when the latter was a pupil in the school. It was a pretty savage letter, and the father complained to me that it cramped his style a good deal in dealing with his boy." [Memories and Opinions, p. 96-97]
