Berwick Academy (Maine)
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South Berwick, Maine United States |
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| Coordinates | 43°13′50″N 70°48′15″W / 43.23056°N 70.80417°WCoordinates: 43°13′50″N 70°48′15″W / 43.23056°N 70.80417°W |
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| Type | Private, Day |
| Motto | Latin: Dei Timor Initium Sapientæ |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Unaffiliated |
| Established | 1791 |
| Head of School | Gregory Schneider |
| Enrollment | 592 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 8:1 |
| Campus | Semi-Rural, 72 acres (29 ha), 11 Buildings |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Athletics conference | Eastern Independent League |
| Mascot | Bulldog |
| Rivals | Pingree School |
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Berwick Academy
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Fogg Memorial Building
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| Location | Academy St., South Berwick, Maine |
| Area | 81 acres (33 ha) |
| Built | 2010 |
| Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque, Victorian, Federal, Colonial Revival |
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78000336 (original) 10000058 (increase) |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 29, 1978 |
| Boundary increase | March 22, 1996 |
Berwick Academy is a college preparatory school located in South Berwick, Maine. Founded in 1791, it is the oldest educational institution in Maine and one of the oldest private schools in North America. The school sits on a 72-acre, 11-building campus on a hill overlooking the Salmon Falls River, near the border between Maine and New Hampshire. Approximately 565 students in grades Pre-K through 12 (and Post-Grad) attend this coeducational day school, from approximately 60 communities in the surrounding regions of southern Maine, southeastern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts.
Berwick Academy was founded in 1791 when citizens of Berwick, York, and Wells (then villages in the District of Maine within Massachusetts) raised $500 to teach languages, liberal arts and sciences to "the youth in this part of the country." Chartered by Massachusetts Governor John Hancock later that year and armed with a classical educational mission, the school opened in a small hip-roofed Georgian building on land donated by Judge Benjamin Chadbournes. The building, named the 1791 House, is the oldest school building in the United States that is still utilized today (Though the building has been relocated since it was built).
From its founding the school contracted with the town of South Berwick to educate local students, serving both as a private college preparatory school and the de facto public school for the town. As the town grew and industrialized, the school's dual role necessitated campus expansion. A second Academy building (1830) was destroyed by fire in 1851; its successor, designed by architect Richard Upjohn, was itself superseded by the William Hayes Fogg Memorial Building. Built in 1894 by George Albert Clough in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, and built complete with electricity and state-of-the-art science labs, it remains the main Academy building today serving the majority of Upper School English, history, and foreign language classrooms (science and mathematics are taught in the Jeppesen Science and Math center).
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