Phillips Exeter Academy
- Address: 20 Main St
- Vicinity: Tan Ln
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1855/00/00 | William A Saunders | Architect | Abbot Hall is built on Phillips Exeter Academy campus. | |||
| 1859/00/00 | Robert Todd Lincoln | Education | Robert Lincoln attends Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. | |||
| 1878/06/00 | William Winthrop Kent | Education | William Winthrop Kent graduates from Phillips Exeter, class of 1878 "with no honors or debts". | |||
| 1930/04/09 | William L Harkness | Benefactor | Harkness writes to Exeter Principal Perry: What I have in mind is a classroom where students could sit around a table with a teacher who would talk with them and instruct them by a sort of tutorial or conference method. | |||
| 1930/11/00 | William L Harkness | Benefactor | Harkness gives Exeter $5.8 million to support his conference method of teaching. Since then, the Academy's principal mode of instruction has been by discussion, "seminar style," around an oval table known as the Harkness table. | |||
| 1936/00/00 | Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr | Education | Alfred Chandler graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. |
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| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Education Attribute | Private School |
| Historic Use | School |
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