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[1] [2] [3] Later additions to the Loomis house were made around the turn of the eighteenth century. The preserved house is now adjacent to the well-known Loomis Chaffee School , which was founded by Loomis' descendants who donated the surrounding farm land of the original homestead for the grounds of the school.
The Loomis Chaffee School (/ ˈ l uː m ɪ s ˈ tʃ eɪ f i /; LC or Loomis) is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate students, located in Windsor, Connecticut, seven miles north of Hartford. As of the 2024-25 school year, 70 percent of Loomis Chaffee's ...
The house was built c. 1765 for Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee, [3] who had bought the land in 1755. It remained in the Chaffee family until 1926, when it was acquired by the Loomis Institute, then a boys prep school, to house a girls school known as the Chaffee School. The two schools are now united on a different campus as the Loomis Chaffee School. [2]
The Colonel James Loomis House is a historic house at 208-210 Broad Street in Windsor, Connecticut. Built in 1822 for a prominent local family, it is a good local example of Federal architecture executed in brick.
Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who taught at Loomis Chaffee. Germaine Cheruy – French costume designer, artist, and intellectual. Madame Cheruy taught art programs at Loomis Chaffee. René Cheruy – French soldier, educator, and artist. He served as a French professor and French Department Head at ...
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Loomis, eldest son of James and Abigail S. (Chaffee) Loomis, of Windsor, Connecticut, was born in Windsor, April 29, 1807. He graduated from Yale College in 1828. On his graduation, he began the study of law in the University of Virginia , but returned the next year to Connecticut, where he pursued his studies, first in the school connected ...