Tome School
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Tome School for Boys Historic District
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| Location | Bainbridge Naval Training Grounds, Port Deposit, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°36′10″N 76°6′26″W / 39.60278°N 76.10722°WCoordinates: 39°36′10″N 76°6′26″W / 39.60278°N 76.10722°W |
| Area | 30 acres (12 ha) |
| Built | 1900 |
| Architect | Boring & Tilton |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 84001760 |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1984 |
The Tome School is a private school in North East in Cecil County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is one of the oldest schools in Maryland. It enrolls grades K - 12.
The Tome School for Boys, originally located on Main Street in Port Deposit, Maryland, was founded by Jacob Tome as a nonsectarian college preparatory school for boys. It opened for boarders and received its first students in 1894. It was part of a system of schools collectively known as the Jacob Tome Institute that began with kindergarten and extended through high school. The school was immediately popular, attracting almost all the students from the town of Port Deposit and many from outside.
Tome left the school an endowment at his death in 1898. Under the direction of his widow, Evalyn N. Tome, the Board of Trustees hired James Cameron Mackenzie to direct the school. MacKenzie, one of the most important late 19th-century secondary school educators, proposed using the endowment to create a separate upper-level boarding school for boys. Two hundred acres on the bluff above the town were purchased for this purpose. MacKenzie in turn consulted with Robert Peabody, of the prominent Boston architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns, concerning the design of the new Jacob Tome Institute.
Following a design competition in 1900, supervised by Peabody, the Board of Trustees selected designs by architects William Boring and Edward Lippincott Tilton in the beaux arts style. Over the next five years, granite buildings were built on the bluffs above Port Deposit, overlooking the Susquehanna River. The tree-lined streets of the campus were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and converged at the steps of Memorial Hall. Olmsted selected landscape architect Charles Wellford Leavitt to design the school's gardens. By 1902, the school had more than a dozen buildings and an endowment of $2 million ($55,361,538 today). Thirteen of these buildings survive: Memorial Hall, three dormitories (Jackson, Madison, and Harrison), the Chesapeake Inn dormitory and dining hall, the Director's residence, the Monroe Gymnasium, and six Master's cottages.
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