Oldest Boarding School in the Country 'Looks More Like a Chateau'

Photo Credit: Town & Country

Philips Academy in Andover made Town and Country’s list of the, “19 Boarding Schools That Look More Like Relais & Châteaux Properties Than High School Campuses.”

Founded in 1778, Phillips Academy is an independent, coeducational secondary school.

About Phillips Andover Academy

“Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is the oldest incorporated boarding school in the United States. The Academy, widely known today as “Andover,” was founded at the height of the American Revolutionary War in 1778 by the Honorable Samuel Phillips, Jr. A converted carpenter’s shop served as Andover’s first classroom and contained a small group of boys of various ages, among them, a fifer in his father’s militia by the name of Levi Hutchens, who went on to invent the alarm clock; a future mayor of Boston and president of Harvard University, Josiah Quincy III; and John Lowell, Jr., who would one day found Harvard Law School.”

Phillips Academy’s Campus Resources

Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, Archives, and Academic Skills Center; Addison Gallery of American Art, 17,000 works & Museum Learning Center; A-V Center & Polk-Lillard Center for video electronic imaging; R.S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Native American art & artifacts; Isham Health Center; Language Learning Center; Elson Art Center; Brace Center for Gender Studies; Gelb Science Center; music center; counseling center; theatre complex; Office of Community and Multicultural Development; 500-acre campus, according to the school’s website.