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It was moved to Middlebury by truck and reassembled there. [2] Middlebury Chapel: 1916 [2] Chapel for formal events; built in the style of a traditional New England meeting house combined with the marble of the American neoclassical style. Above the colonnade is a quote from Psalm 95, "The strength of the hills is His also." Also has an 11-bell ...
The period between 1876 and 1882 was the most productive for Morris; he created sixteen different wallpaper designs. In his wallpapers of this period, he reverted to more naturalistic themes, somewhat less three-dimensional than his earlier work, but with an exceptional harmony and rhythm, as in his designs Poppy (1885) and Acorn.
Old Stone Row is a collection of three stone buildings flanking the original campus green of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.Painter Hall, built 1812-16, is the oldest surviving collegiate academic building in the state, with Old Chapel (1834–36) and Starr Hall (1865) as stylistic accompaniments, all based on vernacular mill construction styles of the period.
The Middlebury Center Historic District encompasses the historic civic and religious center of Middlebury, Connecticut.Centered at the junction of North and South Streets with Whittemore Road, the District includes churches, schools and municipal buildings, many from the late 19th or early 20th centuries, as well as a diversity of residential architecture.
[17] Middlebury biology professor Owen Wesley Mills was a member of the Second International Congress of Eugenics. [18] The national fraternity Kappa Delta Rho was founded in Painter Hall on May 17, 1905. Middlebury College abolished fraternities in the early 1990s, but the organization continued on campus in the less ritualized form of a ...
Westover School was founded in 1909 by Mary Robbins Hillard "to provide young women with a liberal education in a community which would contribute to the development of their character, independence and sense of responsibility."
Tranquility Farm is a historic summer estate located on Tranquility Road in Middlebury, Connecticut. The estate was developed in the 1890s by industrialist John H. Whittemore, with architectural design by the noted firm of McKim, Mead & White, and landscape design by Charles Eliot and Warren H. Manning. The main house was a rare inland example ...
Janice Eldredge Day (Jan Day) - cofounder of Jafra Cosmetics and major donor to Middlebury College [50] John Goodman 1979 - CEO Accenture Federal Services [51] John E. Waldron 1991 - President and COO of Goldman Sachs [52] Brendan Bechtel 2003 - CEO of the Bechtel Group, Inc. [53] Carolyn Reidy 1971 - CEO of Simon & Schuster (2008 - 2020) [54]