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The "Homestead" (built in 1774) was the Choate family's summer home in Wallingford. According to the school newspaper, it is rumored to contain a secret passage to aid escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. [5] Choate Rosemary Hall was formed in 1978 through the merger of two sister schools founded by Mary and William Choate in the 1890s. [6]
Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate and her husband Joseph Hodges Choate at their summer house, Naumkeag. The family bought a forty-nine-acre country estate, known as Naumkeag in the Berkshires. The 44-room "cottage" was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. The grounds were originally laid out by Nathan Franklin Barrett. The Choate ...
Naumkeag was designed by architect Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White in 1885 as the summer estate for Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917), a prominent New York City attorney and American ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1905, and his wife Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate, an artist and advocate for women's education.
Choate Rosemary Hall celebrated its 125th anniversary last year by ramping up its commitment to innovation. The school, which requires its students to bring iPads to class, ...
Rosemary Hall was founded in 1890 by Mary Atwater Choate at Rosemary Farm in Wallingford, her girlhood home and the summer residence of Mary and her husband, William Gardner Choate. Mary, an alumna of Miss Porter's School , was the great-granddaughter of Caleb Atwater (1741–1832), a Connecticut merchant magnate who supplied the American ...
The following is a list of notable alumni of Choate Rosemary Hall, also known informally simply as Choate.A private, college-preparatory, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut, it took its present name and began a coeducational system with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex establishments: the Choate School (founded in 1896 in Wallingford) and Rosemary Hall (founded in 1890 in ...
A Utah man has been charged with murder more than 50 years after a 21-year-old Army soldier was fatally gunned down and his date was kidnapped and raped.. Darrel Eugene Choate, 74, was charged in ...
Her father Joseph Choate was a prominent lawyer, and served as U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1904. Her mother, Caroline Sterling, an artist and educational reformer, played an instrumental role in advancing women’s higher education, and, along with a group of women including Annie Nathan Meyer , founded Barnard College at ...