Phillips Exeter Academy facts for kids

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Exeter Tree Halo
The Academy Building

Phillips Exeter Academy is a high school in New Hampshire. It is a boarding school, so students live there, not with their families. Many politicians, writers, and other leaders have graduated from this school.

Images for kids

  • Portrait of John Phillips

    John Phillips, the founder of Phillips Exeter Academy

  • Phillips Exeter Academy Panorama

    Student body, Phillips Exeter Academy, ca. 1903

  • Abraham Lincoln letter Exeter New Hampshire

    Letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, written from Exeter, where Lincoln was visiting son Robert Todd Lincoln, then an Exeter student. March 1860

  • Original Phillips Exeter Academy Building

    First Academy Building c. 1910, where the school opened in 1783

  • Edward S. Harkness

    Edward S. Harkness, benefactor

  • Philips Exeter Academy advertisement 1909

    1909 advertisement for the school

  • Exeter library interior

    The Class of 1945 Library

  • Phillips Church, Exeter, NH

    Phillips Church in 1911

  • View from Tower of Phillips Church, Exeter, NH

    View from the tower of Phillips Church in 1911, showing Alumni Hall (1903, now Mayer Art Center), and third Academy Building (1872–1914)

  • Abbot hall

    Abbot Hall

  • ExeterAndover1903

    1903 football poster


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