The Dream of a Lease

Munroe's schools and artists have thrived in the Munroe School, and have become ever more integrated with the Town of Lexington. We have grown up with a generation of youth and adults. An enormous percentage of residents have taken our classes, gone to our summer programs, worked for us, come to our events. And yet without a proper lease, we never know how far we can plan and hope for a future.

Munroe Center for the Arts has operated without a lease since it won the bid for a town RFP (request for a proposal) in 1994.
See THE DREAM OF A LEASE.

Stewardship

The non-profit Munroe Center for the Arts acts as the building manager, and has made many improvements to the Munroe School Building over the years. See STEWARDSHIP.

Recent History of Munroe School

The Munroe School, owned by the Town of Lexington, has housed teachers and students since its groundbreaking in 1905. Students--both from elementary school days and contemporary art school days--uniformly express warm memories of their teachers and classrooms. Perhaps there is a spirit of comfort and inspiration that looks over the building?

The Town of Lexington surplused the Munroe School about 1981. In the beginning, local cable TV and a Christian organization used the building. A group of Lexington artists and arts educators came together to from ARTS/Lexington and began to manage the building in 1984. Several of the current schools hail to this time. This umbrella organization lasted ten years at which time, in 1994, it was superceded by Friends of Lexington Arts, doing business as Munroe Center for the Arts.