Berwick Academy (Maine)

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Berwick Academy
Location
South Berwick , Maine United States
Coordinates	43°13′50″N 70°48′15″W / 43.23056°N 70.80417°W / 43.23056; -70.80417
Information
Type	Private, Day & Boarding
Motto	Latin: Dei Timor Initium Sapientæ
Religious affiliation(s)	Unaffiliated
Established	1791; 234 years ago (1791)
Head of School	James A. Hamilton
Enrollment	520
Student to teacher ratio	8:1
Campus size	80 acres (32 ha)
Campus type	Semi-rural
Color(s)	Blue and White
Athletics conference	Eastern Independent League
Mascot	Bulldog
Website	www.berwickacademy.org
Berwick Academy
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Fogg Memorial Building
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Location	Academy St., South Berwick, Maine
Area	80 acres (32 ha)
Built	2010
Architectural style	Richardsonian Romanesque, Victorian, Federal, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	78000336[1] (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.

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  The 1791 House is the original home of the school. Today is houses finance and facilities.
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  Jeppesen Science Center
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  Jackson Library
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  The Fogg Memorial Building, home to Upper School, was landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted

• Ichabod Goodwin (1794–1882), 27th Governor of New Hampshire
• Joseph McKean (academic) (1776–1818), Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, founder of Porcellian Club. Served as Berwick's second headmaster.
• John Holmes Burleigh (1822–77), U.S. Congressman from Maine, namesake of the Burleigh-Davidson Building, his former home
• John Noble Goodwin (1824–87) U.S. Congressman from Maine, Congressional Delegate from Arizona Territory, Chief Justice of Arizona Territory, and the first governor of Arizona
• Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), novelist, author of A Country Doctor (1884), The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
• Guy Tripp (1865-1927), business executive and U.S. Army brigadier general^[2]
• Louis B. Costello (1876–1959), newspaper publisher
• Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904–99), novelist, author of As The Earth Turns (1933) and Dunnybrook (1943)
• Casey Coleman (1951–2006), radio broadcaster and play-by-by announcer for the Cleveland Indians
• Mike Eruzione (b. 1954), former National Hockey League player and captain of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
• Richard Corman (photographer) (b. 1954), portrait photographer.
• Sam Fuld (b. 1981), Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and General Manager for the Philadelphia Phillies, attended in 8th grade

• The Berwick Academy website

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