Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor
- Address: 4 Batchelder Rd
- Vicinity: Island Rd
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1874/07/00 | John Mason Loomis | Benefactor | The Loomis Institute is chartered by five Loomis siblings as a memorial to their deceased children, hoping that "some good may come to posterity, from the harvest, poor though it be, of our lives." | |||
| 1910/00/00 | Mary Hunt Loomis, John Mason Loomis's wife, leaves over $ 1.1 million as an endowment to The Loomis Institute allowing the school to offer tuition-free education for the nest four decades. | |||||
| 1913/00/00 | Murphy and Dana | Architect | Loomis Institute's Dining Hall, two adjacent dormitories and the Power House are completed. Excavations for the institute building unearthed remains of the Loomis family's original dugout cabin. | |||
| 1914/09/00 | The Loomis Institute opens to 39 boys and 13 girls. | |||||
| 1916/00/00 | Murphy and Dana | Architect | Founders Hall is built to house the Loomis Institutes's entire academic program. | |||
| 1926/00/00 | Loomis Institute girls transfer to the new campus of The Chaffee School to enable the faculty to focus on girls educational issues. The Loomis Institute becomes a school for boys. | |||||
| 1937/00/00 | Funded by a gift from Virginia Loomis Palmer and designed by architect Irwin Jones, an alum, Palmer Hall dormitory is built. | |||||
| 1940/06/00 | Katharine Brush | Mother | Young Tom Brush graduates from The Loomis Institute, a boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut. | |||
| 1970/00/00 | The Loomis Institute for boys merges with The Chaffee School for girls, creating The Loomis Chaffee School and quitting the Chaffee House. | |||||
| 2020/00/00 | The 735-member student body comprises 73 percent boarding students and 27 percent day students representing through citizenship and residency 48 countries and 32 states, 33 percent of whom receive need-based financial aid. |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Hezekiah Chaffee Sr House |
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| Loomis Homestead, Windsor | ||
| The Heads House, Loomis Institute |
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| Sight Category | Historic District |
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