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George Whipple, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1933 for cure for pernicious anemia; George M. Whitesides, professor of chemistry at Harvard University; Reed Whittemore, poet and twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress; Olivia Wilde, actress (graduated 2002) [67]
The Kittredges remained a prominent medical family in the Andover-North Andover area, producing generations of doctors through the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. Joseph Kittredge operated a small sanitarium in the house in the 1920s and 1930s. When the house was listed on the National Register in 1976, it was still in the family's hands. [3]
Andover itself is the location of 51 of these properties and districts listed on the National Register. [ 2 ] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 20, 2024.
Phillips Academy (also known as PA, Phillips Academy Andover, or simply Andover) is a private, co-educational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students located in Andover, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The academy enrolls approximately 1,150 students in grades 9 through 12, including postgraduate students.
Politicians from Andover, Massachusetts (13 P) Pages in category "People from Andover, Massachusetts" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total.
Philena McKeen with graduates in 1880s Students performing Masque of the Flowers circa 1874 Students behind a fence separating them from Phillips Academy, circa 1874. The school was founded during a time when the prevailing view was that women's education "should always be relative to men", with some believing that study of "higher subjects" such as philosophy and mathematics might render ...
Andover is the site of a large factory owned by Raytheon, the builder of the Patriot Missile. Chandler-Bigsby-Abbot House, built in 1673, is the oldest house in Andover. Andover is home to the second oldest land preservation society in the country, the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS), which controls over 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2).
Rockstar New England, Inc. (formerly Mad Doc Software, LLC) is an American video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Andover, Massachusetts.Ian Lane Davis founded the company as Mad Doc Software in November 1999 after working as a technical director for Activision.