The house, on the Canterbury Town Green, was empty and available for sale in 1831, and Crandall purchased the house for $500 down payment plus a $1500 mortgage [REF].
It was the site of a girls school run by Prudence Crandall during 1832-1834 that first had all-white students, then Crandall admitted one black girl, which made the school into what is believed to be the first integrated secondary school in the United States.