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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 ...
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"
Carver withdrew from their partnership in 1912, [4] and Willis ran the school alone until 1919, when she took on a new partner called Lilian Heather, who had been at the school since 1907 as a part-time teacher of Science and Mathematics. [2] Down House, Downe. The school became popular with literary and academic parents.
All but one are wood frame structures, generally 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height; there is one brick house. One building, the Hand Tub House, is a fire station that has been converted into a local museum. [2] The district is centered on the four-way junction of River Road, Wharf Lane, East Main Street, and the Rock's Bridge approach.
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
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 ]
(Describes life at Downe House school during World War I) Browne, E. Janet (1995), Charles Darwin: vol. 1 Voyaging , London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 1-84413-314-1 Darwin, Charles (1887), Darwin, Francis (ed.), The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter , London: John Murray
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 ...