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43-746: Rosemary Hall may refer to: Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Connecticut) , former campus of all-girls school, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County, Connecticut Rosemary Hall (North Augusta, South Carolina) , listed on the NRHP in South Carolina People [ edit ] Rosemary Hall (political activist) , 1925–2011, Scottish nationalist political organiser See also [ edit ] Choate Rosemary Hall , coed school in Wallingford, Connecticut that

86-1032: A Unitarian minister in 1842 by the Boston Association of Ministers. In 1846 he became pastor of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, Massachusetts . Hale married Emily Baldwin Perkins in 1852; she was the niece of Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins Baldwin on her father's side and Lyman Beecher , Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher on her mother's side. They had nine children: Alexander, born and died 1853; Ellen Day , 1854–1939; Arthur, 1859–1939;Charles Alexander, 1861–1867; Edward Everett Jr., 1863–1932; Philip Leslie Hale , 1865–1931; Herbert Dudley, 1866–1908; Henry Kidder, 1868–1876; Robert Beverly, 1869–1895. Hale left

129-611: A variance to exempt the institution from needing to raze buildings and/or purchase additional land. The variance was not given to the institution, but the Greenwich town government never enforced the requirements of the zoning up to the time Daycroft was disestablished. In 1989 Daycroft sold it to the Japanese Educational Institute of New York ( JEI ; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai ), and in 1992

172-517: A 25-year-old Briton teaching in New Jersey. On October 3, 1890, the New Haven Morning News reported: "The opening of Rosemary Hall took place at Wallingford yesterday ... at the beautiful Rosemary Farms, which have been the property of Mrs. Choate's family for five generations. The school occupied a house belonging to Mrs. Choate, standing near the old Atwater homestead, which the members of

215-701: A Connecticut merchant magnate who supplied the American forces during the Revolutionary War. In 1775 General George Washington visited the Atwater store in Wallingford en route to assuming command of the Continental Army . On that occasion, Washington took tea with judge Oliver Stanley at the "Red House," now Squire Stanley House on the Choate Rosemary Hall campus. In 1878 Mary Atwater Choate had co-founded

258-555: A contemporary boys school. Her personal curriculum for the next four decades had three core components: student self-government, contact sports, and a brutal workload of academics. Ruutz-Rees taught the classical languages, history, and French. In 1897 she was the first headmistress of an American girls' school to prescribe uniform dress, and over time the Rosemarian uniform became increasingly elaborate, with cape, star-shaped berets, and much seasonal and occasional variety. Equally elaborate

301-563: A forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology , Hale was active in raising the tone of American life for half a century. He had a deep interest in the anti- slavery movement (especially in Kansas), as well as popular education (involving himself especially with the Chautauqua adult-education movement ), and the working-man's home. He published a wide variety of works in fiction, history and biography. He used his writings and

344-504: A lengthy term from 1858 to 1891, and as recording secretary from 1854 to 1858. He served as vice-president of the society from 1891 to 1906, served a shorter term as president from 1906 to 1907, then again took up the position of vice-president from 1907 to 1909. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly . He soon published other stories in

387-766: A psalm on the balcony of the Massachusetts State House . In 1903 he became Chaplain of the United States Senate , and joined the Literary Society of Washington . The next year, he was elected as a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also in 1904, he was one of several high-profile investors who backed the Intercontinental Correspondence University , but the institution folded by 1915. Hale lived from 1869 to his death at

430-428: A rumor that Ruutz-Rees would leave the school. But by 1900 the headmistress and her educational style had acquired influential champions among the students' parents and two of them, residents of Greenwich, Connecticut, a wealthy enclave twenty-five miles from midtown Manhattan, joined forces to effect the removal of the school to their town. Shipping magnate Nathaniel Witherell donated 5 acres (20,000 m ) of land in

473-596: A series of letters in the Boston Daily Advertiser , he noted the "inferiority" of immigrants: "[it] compels them to go the bottom; and the consequence is that we are, all of us, the higher lifted." Edward Everett Hale's story " The Man Without a Country " (1863) opened with the sentence: "I was stranded at the old Mission House in Mackinaw, waiting for a Lake Superior steamer which did not choose to come." In his 1893 and 1900 reminiscences, Hale states that "To write

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516-556: A vocational organization for Civil War widows, the New York Exchange for Women's Work, prototype of many such exchanges across the country (it survived until 2003). In 1889 Mary planned a new institution on the same principle of female self-sufficiency and she advertised in The New York Times for a headmistress to run a school that would train girls in the "domestic arts." The advertisement was answered by Caroline Ruutz-Rees ,

559-438: Is 18 acres (7.3 ha). The Brunswick School now owns the property. It plans to convert the site into a preschool and housing for employees. Rosemary Hall was founded in 1890 by Mary Atwater Choate at Rosemary Farm in Wallingford, her girlhood home and the summer residence of Mary and her husband, William Gardner Choate . Mary, an alumna of Miss Porter's School , was the great-granddaughter of Caleb Atwater (1741–1832),

602-599: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Architectural disambiguation pages Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Connecticut) The Greenwich campus of Rosemary Hall was opened in 1900. The oldest surviving building was built in 1909. The Greenwich campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 for its architectural significance. The listing includes 16 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure . The historic site's listing area

645-490: Is successor to Greenwich all-girls school Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rosemary Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Hall&oldid=1040826011 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

688-539: The Boston Daily Advertiser , and Sarah Preston Everett ; and the brother of Lucretia Peabody Hale , Susan Hale , and Charles Hale . Edward Hale was a nephew of Edward Everett , the orator and statesman, and grand-nephew of Nathan Hale (1755–1776), the Revolutionary War hero executed by the British for espionage. Edward Everett Hale was also a descendant of Richard Everett and related to Helen Keller . Hale

731-894: The Christian Examiner merged with Scribner's Magazine. In 1881, Hale published the story "Hands Off" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine . In the tale, a narrator goes through time to alter events in the past, thereby creating an alternate timeline. Paul J. Nahin writes that this story makes Hale a pioneer in emerging science fiction, time travel, and stories about changing the past. In the early 1880s Harriet E. "Hattie" Freeman became one of Hale's volunteer secretaries. Her family had been connected with Hale's church since 1861. As Hattie and Hale worked together they grew closer and closer. According to historian Sara Day, their relationship became loving and intimate. Day came to this conclusion after studying 3,000 Hale-Freeman love letters (1884–1909) held by

774-533: The Daycroft School . The campus previously was about 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) large, but in 1984 the school sold 7.5 acres (3.0 ha) of land for $ 1,100,000, and so the size of the campus was down to 17 acres (6.9 ha); the sale reduced the ratio of land to building space, and so the school administration unknowingly caused the facility to go against the zoning regulations of the Town of Greenwich. Daycroft asked for

817-728: The Edward Everett Hale House in Roxbury. He maintained a summer home in South Kingstown, Rhode Island where he and his family often spent summer months. Hale died in Roxbury, by then part of Boston, in 1909. He was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain , Suffolk County, Massachusetts. A life-size likeness in bronze statue memorializing the man and his works stands in the Boston Public Garden . Combining

860-742: The North American Review , the Atlantic Monthly , the Christian Register , the Outlook , and many more. He was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history. On November 20, 1891, Hale founded the Ten Times One Corporation to implement the ideas laid out in the original story. In 1898, the organization changed its name to Lend A Hand Society , and continues to serve those in need in

903-527: The Rock Ridge section of Greenwich. Julian Curtiss gathered a group of investors and established a joint stock corporation funded through the sale of six-percent bonds. Ruutz-Rees was the chief shareholder. The Greenwich residence of Rosemary Hall began in fall term 1900, when 57 girl students moved into the Main Building, known as "The School," a U-shaped shingled house on Zaccheus Mead Lane. Other facilities on

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946-572: The Southern Circuit of New York from 1878 to 1881, and afterward a partner of Shipman, Barlow, Laroque, and Choate in New York City. There was no formal relationship between the Choates' new boys school and their other foundation, Rosemary Hall, a hundred yards to the east on Christian Street in Wallingford, but there were coeducational audiences for plays and recitals and Mary Choate hosted dances at

989-552: The Boston, MA area. He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1895. Hale retired as minister from the South Congregational Church in 1899 and chose as his successor Edward Cummings, father of E. E. Cummings . By the turn of the century, Hale was recognized as among the nation's most important men of letters. Bostonians asked him to help ring in the new century on December 31, 1900, by presenting

1032-522: The Closet", gave him a prominent position among short-story writers of 19th century America. His short story " The Brick Moon ", serialized in the Atlantic Monthly , is the first known fictional description of an artificial satellite . It was possibly an influence on the novel The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne . He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1865. In 1870, he

1075-456: The Homestead, an Atwater family residence since 1774. The official history of Choate Rosemary Hall, written by Tom Generous, says that the rift between Caroline Ruutz-Rees and Mary Choate, proponents of two very different sorts of feminism, was public knowledge as early as 1896, in which year headmistress and founder did not share the lectern at Prize Day and local newspapers published "denials" of

1118-626: The Library of Congress. The letters, donated to the library in 1969, had held their secrets until 2006 when Day realized that the intimate passages were written in Towndrow's shorthand. In 1886, Hale founded Lend a Hand , which merged with the Charities Review in 1897, and the Lend a Hand Record . Throughout his life he contributed many articles on a variety of subjects to the periodicals of his day including

1161-528: The Unity Church in 1856 to become pastor at the South Congregational Church, Boston, where he served until 1899. In 1847 Hale was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, and he would be involved with the society for the rest of his life, taking up various positions in the service of the society. He served two non-consecutive terms on its board of councilors, from 1852 to 1854, and

1204-602: The Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy (later Carmel Academy ), and so both schools shared the site. In 2020 Carmel closed its school operations. Brunswick School planned to convert the site into a preschool and housing for employees. The Japanese School had moved into another facility in Greenwich. Brunswick acquired the former Carmel Academy site in September 2023. Edward Everett Hale Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909)

1247-554: The campus began housing the Japanese School of New York (Greenwich Japanese School). Because Daycroft had unknowingly violated town code by selling land and having too high of a building/land ratio, the Japanese school faced a possibility of demolishing historic buildings, but ultimately did not do so after an agreement with the town government was made. In 2006 the JEI sold the building to

1290-405: The fetters of Calvinistic theology. These young people were trained to know that human nature is not totally depraved. They were taught that there is nothing of which it is not capable... For such reasons, and many more, the young New Englanders of liberal training rushed into life, certain that the next half century was to see a complete moral revolution in the world. Hale was licensed to preach as

1333-465: The motto, first enunciated in 1869 in his Lowell Institute lectures: "Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand." This motto was the basis for the formation of Lend-a-Hand Clubs, Look-up Legions and Harry Wadsworth Clubs for young people. Out of the romantic Waldensian story "In His Name" (1873) there similarly grew several other organizations for religious work, such as King's Daughters, and King's Sons. In 1875,

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1376-430: The property were a wood-frame building that would be the gym for many years, a tennis court, and a running track. In the next two decades the campus would build or acquire other "cottages" and lay out an Italian garden, the gift in 1912 of Janet Ruutz-Rees, mother of the headmistress. The heart of the campus was St. Bede's Chapel, built with $ 15,000 collected at bake sales, teas, and benefits, and from every constituency of

1419-607: The same periodical. His best known work was " The Man Without a Country ", published in the Atlantic in 1863 and intended to strengthen support for the Union cause in the North. As in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact. These two stories and such others as "The Rag-Man and the Rag-Woman" and "The Skeleton in

1462-508: The school will have the privilege of visiting as often as they like. ... Rev. Edward Everett Hale addressed the school girls in his inimitable way, at once attractive and helpful. 'Never forget,' said he, 'that it is a great art to do what you do well. If you limp, limp well, and if you dance, dance well'." This original school building, "old" Atwater House (built 1758), was at the northwest corner of Christian and Elm streets, where "new" Atwater House now stands. The eight arriving girls lived on

1505-544: The school. Construction began in 1906 and consecration was performed October 18, 1909, by the Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, Chauncey Bunce Brewster . St. Bede's was Middle English Gothic, with granite walls, unnailed slate roof, hand-hewn timbers, Welsh red tile floor, and a 16-foot (4.9 m) altar window of handmade English glass, designed by Christopher Whall . According to the November 25, 1909 issue of Leslie's Weekly ," it

1548-452: The second floor, the headmistress's residence and classrooms occupied the ground floor, and the dining room was in the basement. More space was soon required and neighboring houses were rented from the Choates. The "old Atwater homestead" (built 1774, now known as Homestead), stands at the center of the present day Choate Rosemary Hall campus, on the northeast corner of Christian and Elm. Caroline Ruutz-Rees (1865–1954), headmistress until 1938,

1591-432: The two magazines he founded, Old and New (1870–75) and Lend a Hand (1886–97), to advance a number of social reforms, including religious tolerance, the abolition of slavery and wider education. Writer-educator Mary Lowe Dickinson served as Hale's associate editor for Lend a Hand . Hale supported Irish immigration in the mid-19th century, as he felt the new workers freed Americans from performing menial, hard labor. In

1634-489: Was "begun three years ago by the girls themselves who collected stones and carried them one by one to the spot which the building was to occupy." From 1915 to 1965 the handwritten name of every graduate was painted in gold on the ceiling. On October 17, 2009, the centennial of St. Bede's was celebrated in Greenwich by Rosemarians past and present, with the Whimawehs singing traditional RH songs. The building property later became

1677-456: Was Rosemarian ritual and tradition, most of it invented by Ruutz-Rees. Her faculty followed the British practice of wearing academic robes in class and addressing students by their last names. Ruutz-Rees herself always wore azure silk dresses and a necklace of amber beads. In 1896 the Choate School was founded in Wallingford by Mary Choate and her husband William. He was U.S. District Judge for

1720-680: Was a child prodigy who exhibited extraordinary literary skills. He graduated from Boston Latin School at age 13 and enrolled at Harvard College immediately after. There, he settled in with the literary set, won two Bowdoin Prizes and was elected the Class Poet. He graduated second in his class in 1839 and then studied at Harvard Divinity School . Decades later, he reflected on the new liberal theology there: The group of leaders who surrounded Dr. [William Ellery] Channing had, with him, broken forever from

1763-613: Was a figure of extraordinary personality and influence, a militant feminist and suffragist of national prominence. On the Wallingford golf course she wore bloomers, which shocked the locals, and on buggy rides to Wallingford station she carried a pistol. Her motto was "No rot." She held a Lady Literate in Arts from the University of St Andrews and would eventually earn a doctorate at Columbia . Ruutz-Rees (pronounced "Roots-Reese") quickly changed Rosemary Hall's mission from "domestic arts" to that of

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1806-638: Was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister , best known for his writings such as " The Man Without a Country ", published in Atlantic Monthly , in support of the Union during the Civil War . He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale , the American spy during the Revolutionary War . Hale was born on April 3, 1822, in Boston , Massachusetts , the son of Nathan Hale (1784–1863), proprietor and editor of

1849-794: Was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society . In recognition of his support for the Union during the American Civil War , Hale was elected as a Third Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States . Hale assisted in founding the Christian Examiner, Old and New in 1869 and became its editor. The story "Ten Times One is Ten" (1870), with its hero Harry Wadsworth, contained

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