Old Main Building Exterior

Title:

Old Main Building Exterior

Publisher:

Phillips Academy

Date:

1890

Description:

Built in 1865 to replace the Stone Academy which had burned in 1863, the Old Main Building, as it came to be known, was designed by Mr. Cummings. In April that year every person connected to the Academy met at the proposed site to remove a spadeful of earth for the new foundation. In 1899 it too burned and after a remodelling demolished in 1927.

Subject:

Phillips Academy -- Buildings