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Downe House was founded in 1907 by Olive Willis, its first headmistress, as an all-girls' boarding school. Its first home was Down House in the village of Downe, Kent (now part of the London Borough of Bromley), which had been the home of Charles Darwin. [4] By 1921 Down House was too small for the school, so Willis bought The Cloisters, Cold ...
1830 Map of Newbury. Beers, D.G. 1872 Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts Newbury. Plate 25. West Newbury. Plate 27. Walker, George H. 1884 Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts Newbury. Plate 139. Newbury Vital Records to 1849; Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey. Knight-Short House, 6 High Street, Newbury Old Town, MA
Former pupils of Downe House School in England are called "Downe House Old Girls". The "Seniors" are the school's name for prefects. The "Seniors" are the school's name for prefects. Pages in category "People educated at Downe House School"
Notable among these are the Swett-Ilsley House and the Coffin House, two 17th-century houses that are now museum properties of Historic New England. The district also includes Newbury's town hall (c. 1935) and the 1898 Woodbridge School, built on the homesite of the town's first schoolteacher, John Woodbridge. [2]
The Hale-Boynton House is a historic house on Middle Street in Newbury, Massachusetts. The house is now part of the campus of The Governor's Academy, where it is referred to as "Boynton House". [2] It was built in 1764, and is notable for its well-preserved Georgian architecture, and for its association with the inventor E. Moody Boynton. The ...
Downe House School, a girls' boarding school, was founded by Olive Willis and Alice Carver in 1907 at Charles Darwin's former home, Down House, in Kent. [12] The school outgrew its premises and moved to Cold Ash in 1922, taking over The Cloisters which was built by a religious order called the Order of Silence in 1913. [ 6 ]
The James Noyes House is a historic First Period house at 7 Parker Street in Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. The house was built by the Reverend James Noyes, a Puritan pastor, who settled in Newbury in the mid-17th century. [2] The Noyes family came from Wiltshire in England. The house dates from about 1646. It was added to the National ...
Newell Farm is a historic farmhouse at 243 Main Street in West Newbury, Massachusetts. It was built in 1846 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. History