Phillips Exeter Academy

First Academy Building c. 1910, where the school opened in 1783

Exeter baseball team in 1881, including a student from the Chinese Educational Mission

View from the tower of Phillips Church in 1911, showing Alumni Hall (1903, now Mayer Art Center), and third Academy Building (1872–1914)

Student body, Phillips Exeter Academy, ca. 1903

Letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, written from Exeter, where Lincoln was visiting son Robert Todd Lincoln, then an Exeter student. March 1860

Highly selective, coeducational independent school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, and offers a secondary postgraduate program.

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Phillips Academy

Co-educational university-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate (PG) year.

Phillips Academy elm tree, which is estimated to be at least 200 years old

Andover Battalion cadets training at the school, 1918

Visitors by the American elm in front of the library (May 2020)

Western dormitory quadrangle ("West Quad").

Winslow Homer's Eight Bells, part of the Addison Gallery's Permanent Collection

An Andover crew races on the Merrimack River.

Andover football team posing for The Phillipian, 1883

Phillips Academy is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States, established in 1778 by Samuel Phillips Jr. His uncle, Dr. John Phillips, later founded Phillips Exeter Academy in 1781.

Harkness table

Teaching and learning method involving students seated in a large, oval configuration to discuss ideas in an encouraging, open-minded environment with only occasional or minimal teacher intervention.

Instructor and students at Techie Youth, engaged in the Harkness discussion-based teaching method

Students and instructor seated around a Harkness table at The College Preparatory School in Oakland, California

Students at The Episcopal School of Dallas engaged around a Harkness table.

Developed at Phillips Exeter Academy, the method's name comes from the oil magnate and philanthropist Edward Harkness, who presented the school with a monetary gift in 1930.

George Plimpton

American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman.

Plimpton with Herb Caen and Ann Moller in 1993

After St. Bernard's School, Plimpton attended Phillips Exeter Academy (from which he was expelled just shy of graduation), and Daytona Beach High School, where he received his high school diploma, before entering Harvard College in July 1944.

Edward Harkness

American philanthropist.

Harkness House in New York, now home of The Commonwealth Fund

Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia

Harkness Eolia Mansion in Waterford, Connecticut

He was a major benefactor to Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Paul's School, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Exeter, New Hampshire

Town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

A Declaration of Rights and Plan of Government for the State of New-Hampshire, adopted by New Hampshire Convention at Exeter, June 1779

First Congregational Church, {{circa|1870}}

Bellows House, Front Street, {{circa|1870}}

Robinson Female Seminary, now defunct, {{circa|1870}}

Home to Phillips Exeter Academy, a private university-preparatory school, Exeter is situated where the Exeter River becomes the tidal Squamscott River.

Ralph Adams Cram

Prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style.

Cover of Time magazine (December 13, 1926)

Original design: Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. The tower over the crossing has never been completed.

First Unitarian Society of Newton, Massachusetts (1905)

House of the Rising Sun, Fall River, Massachusetts, c.1890

Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, 1908

Church of the Covenant in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, 1911

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC; design taken over by Cram in 1911

Sayles Memorial Library in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1902

Hunt Memorial Library, Nashua, New Hampshire, c. 1906

Princeton University Graduate College, 1911-13

Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1922

Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas, 1926

Archbold Infirmary, The Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut, 1928

Rothschild Memorial Archway, Princeton University, c. 1929-1930

He was educated at Augusta, Hampton Falls, Westford Academy, which he entered in 1875, and Phillips Exeter Academy.

John Phillips (educator)

John Phillips (December 27, 1719 – April 21, 1795) was an early American educator and the cofounder of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, along with his wife, Elizabeth Phillips.

John Taylor Gilman

Farmer, shipbuilder and statesman from Exeter, New Hampshire.

Broadside proclamation from Governor Gilman, Exeter, 1794

He was president of the board of trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1795–1827, and donor of the oldest property, the 'Yard,' upon which the older buildings stand.

Nicholas Gilman

American Founding Father, a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, representing New Hampshire.

Order by Nicholas Gilman, Treasurer of New Hampshire, Exeter, 1781

Portrait miniature of Gilman painted by John Ramage, c. 1790. Winterthur Museum

Exeter, New Hampshire, home of Hon. Nicholas Gilman

General orders of George Washington: the bottom section (May 24, 1779) names Captain Nicholas Gilman, of the Third New Hampshire Regiment as assistant to the adjutant general

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives during the first four Congresses and served in the U.S. Senate from 1805 until his death in 1814.His brother John Taylor Gilman was also very active in New Hampshire politics, serving as Governor of New Hampshire for 14 years, as well as a principal benefactor of Phillips Exeter Academy.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football.

Stagg invented the end-around play (diagram pictured), and published the first book with plays diagrammed

Stagg was born in a poor Irish neighborhood of West Orange, New Jersey, and matriculated at Phillips Exeter Academy.