Eastern Point Day School
8 Farrington Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone: 978.283.1700
Fax: 978.283.0422
Email: info@easternpointdayschool.org
Come visit us at beautiful Eastern Point! You will love your visit, whether you take the beautiful, scenic ocean route or the historic harbor route with its artist colony, working railways and Fish Pier. We are proud to be located in Gloucester, America’s oldest seaport.
DIRECTIONS:
During school hours, please park on Farrington Avenue and walk up the main driveway. Enter the main entrance of the school and check in with the School Office (immediately on the left).
128 North to Gloucester, Massachusetts
Do not take any of the Gloucester exits.
Pass Sudbay’s car dealership and Lobsta Land (on left) and Nichols Candy (on right).
Cross the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge (over the Annisquam River)
On the first rotary (Grant Circle), take the 2nd right (passing the Friendly’s exit) onto the 128 highway extension.
On the second rotary (Blackburn Circle), take the 2nd right (passing the Fuller School exit).
Continue straight, through two sets of lights.
HARBOR ROUTE:
Traveling this route you will see the State Fish Pier, Inner Harbor, Gloucester Marine Railways, Smith Cove, the Gloucester Stage Company, the entrance to Rocky Neck (the oldest working art colony in the United States), Wonson Cove, Ten Pound Island, Gloucester Harbor and Niles Beach.
If you stop at Niles Beach or drive out Eastern Point (through the pillars) you can also see Eastern Point Lighthouse, Dog Bar Breakwater, Beauport (Sleeper-McCann House), Hammond Castle (home to John Hays Hammond, Jr., one of America's premier inventors) and the reef of Norman’s Woe from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Wreck of the Hesperus.”
After the second set of lights, proceed up the hill onto East Main Street.
Travel East Main Street for approximately 2 miles
You will pass (water will always be on right):
Richdales (on left)
Beacon Marine (on right)
Gloucester Stage Company & Last Stop Variety Store (on right)
East Main Street turns into Eastern Point Boulevard after you pass Rocky Neck Avenue (on right).
Follow Eastern Point Boulevard passing Niles Beach (on right)
Road bares left and turns into Farrington Avenue (do not go through the stone pillars)
Eastern Point Day School will be on your left (at the top of the hill)
OCEAN ROUTE:
Traveling this route, you will see Thatcher Island, first visited by Samuel de Champlain in 1605 (the island has two light houses, “Twin Lights”, reconstructed in 1861), Milk Island, and Gloucester’s beautiful back shore (overlooking the Atlantic Ocean) and Bass Rocks.
After the second set of lights, turn left onto Route 127A (Bass Ave.)
You will pass:
White Hen Pantry (on left)
Stop and Shop (on left)
Turn right onto Atlantic Avenue (or continue straight to also see Good Harbor Beach and Salt Island. The road will curve around and reconnect with Atlantic Avenue.)
Travel this road for approximately 2 miles
Road bares right and turns into Farrington Avenue.
Eastern Point Day School will be on your right.
ONLINE DIRECTIONS:
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Eastern Point Day School | 8 Farrington Avenue | Gloucester MA 01930 | Phone: (978) 283-1700 | Fax: (978) 283-0422 | Email: info@easternpointdayschool.org
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