Bacon Academy

History

The Bacon Academy, often referred to as the Old Bacon Academy, was the original Bacon Academy. It was built in 1803 and is located at 84 Main Street, Colchester, Connecticut. The main structure is a 70 feet (21 m) long by 34 feet (10 m) wide three-story Flemish bond brick structure with Federal style details, noted for its plain, utilitarian floor plan consisting of two rooms off a central hall and stairway. The Day Hall is a contributing property purchased by the Bacon Academy trustees in 1929, a church hall that was used for the high school until 1962.

Bacon Academy originally only admitted white males, but it integrated non-white children around 1833 and began to educate females in 1842. The school has educated important figures such as Edwin Denison Morgan, Morgan Bulkeley, William A. Buckingham, Lyman Trumbull, and Morrison Waite. The structure's utilitarian style, combined with its Federal details, led the National Register of Historic Places to recognize it as architecturally significant. The Old Bacon Academy building is used today as part of an alternative education program, and Day Hall is used as a nursery. The properties were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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