<p>There are so many beautiful campuses, but Blair just continues to amaze me. In all seasons, it is gorgeous. It looks exactly like the pictures on the website. The feeling is one of inclusiveness and warmth.</p>
<p>I have never visited Blair, but I have toured Loomis and I agree, it is quite beautiful. What I did not like was the flooding situation at the playing fields.</p>
<p>yea loomis flooding situation may be weird
but when you live there/go to school there, it is acually quite cool and gives the school a large tradition of everyone going in it on the years that it does flood (not every year)
it also gives the school the nichname "the island"</p>
<p>MomofWildChild, yes, the blair campus looks amazing on the web.
I'm going to plug Middlesex once again. The night before my d interview, we decided to find the school the night before so that we would have no problem the next morning finding the place. When we drove up to the campus, it was absolutely amazing even in the dark. The dorm light were on throughout the campus, it was simply gorgeous. During the day it too is absolutely gorgeous. I'm a bit biased toward Georgian style. I also like Gothic.</p>
<p>A little trivia for you guys: Frederick Law Olmstead, who also designed Central Park, went to Andover :)</p>
<p>I really loved the St. Paul's campus. It felt like a gorgeous nature reserve, and a perfect place to take a run through on a Saturday afternoon. The buildings were breath-taking as well. </p>
<p>Deerfield seemed a little too green to me at first; the green grass, the green trees, the green ivy on the buildings, and the green clothing attire of a large percentage of the student body. But upon a second visit it really stood out to me how aesthetically pleasing the buildings and the campus itself really were. Classic New England Prep school. </p>
<p>I didn't like Exeter's campus aside from their awe-inspiring Phelps Science Center. It seemed too cold; the buildings too large and far apart, and the students gave a faint air of frostiness as well.</p>
<p>How can anyone say Andover isn't stunning! Puts Exeter to absolute shame. Deerfield is picture book perfect, brick and ivy, white picket fences, a quaint Inn. SPS is beautiful in a more sophisticated way. The drop dead beautiful chapel and library, the perfect small residential houses.</p>
<p>Andover didn't stun me when I visited it, probably because it was in the winter and the snow from the early snow fall had just begun to melt away, leaving mounds of snow here and there, revealing patches of grass and dirt underneath while the trees branches were bare without any leaves. Yes, the campus was huge and the buildings looked like those on a New England college campus but it didn't captivate me the way St. Pauls, Deerfield, and Hotchkiss' campuses did. Of course I'm being a little bias here...since I'm a nature person I love the sight of rolling hills and stretches of forest filling the unknown horizon....:)</p>
<p>I agree with MomofWildChild - Blair's campus is strikingly beautiful.</p>
<p>Blair has arguably the most beautiful campus from the schools mentioned in this thread. I agree with MAPL. and M.O.W.C.</p>
<p>You can see the beauty of their campus, their buildings, their cleaninness, their style ... even through their website you can see it, still when you go visit ... its ... I mean, you can not compare. Its amazing. We were very, very impressed with the school. This happenned last year when we visited them.</p>
<p>some campus photos, just for everyone to get a visual image of what people are talking about:</p>
<p>Blair Academy: <a href="http://www.joycebambach.homestead.com/files/BlairAcademy.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.joycebambach.homestead.com/files/BlairAcademy.jpg</a>
<a href="http://jr.alc-gp.jp/campus/school-us/blair/blair.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://jr.alc-gp.jp/campus/school-us/blair/blair.jpg</a></p>
<p>Phillips Andover:
<a href="http://www.jou.ufl.edu/rolemodels/images/PhilipsAcademyAndover.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.jou.ufl.edu/rolemodels/images/PhilipsAcademyAndover.jpg</a>
<a href="http://foundation.tonbridge-school.co.uk/images/news/index-usa-wide.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://foundation.tonbridge-school.co.uk/images/news/index-usa-wide.jpg</a></p>
<p>Exeter:
<a href="http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/class/ko/DeadPoets/coate.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/class/ko/DeadPoets/coate.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.centralmusic.biz/nss-folder/pictures/phillips.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.centralmusic.biz/nss-folder/pictures/phillips.jpg</a></p>
<p>Deerfield:
<a href="http://jr.alc-gp.jp/campus/school-us/deerfield/deerfield.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://jr.alc-gp.jp/campus/school-us/deerfield/deerfield.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/photos/large_4_4.jpeg%5B/url%5D">http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/photos/large_4_4.jpeg</a></p>
<p>St. Paul's
<a href="http://www.longchampselectric.com/assets/images/photos/St-Paul-School-outside.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.longchampselectric.com/assets/images/photos/St-Paul-School-outside.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.altieriseborwieber.com/plibraries5.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.altieriseborwieber.com/plibraries5.jpg</a></p>
<p>Taft has probably one of the best stereotypical Collegiate, gothic campusses. It looks like a prep school should look. Avon Old Farms has one of the most beautiful campusses I've ever seen. It's built like a British cotswald village and everything looks ancient but perfect. Deerfield is nice too. Choate should definitely not have been named on the board because its campus is way to big, next to a busy road that you have to cross during the day to go to class, and its just not that attractive.</p>
<p>hard to believe all this discussion of frederick law olmstead has not elicited some praise for lville's campus... the most important parts of which were designed by him. it's all the school admin ever talks about. i didn't visit all these other schools. i just know that when i went for my interview at lville, i said "i want to go here."</p>
<p>madeinusa817, well, your assessment of Peddie versus L'ville becomes much clearer.</p>
<p>madeinusa817, please see explanation of my blunder at L'ville thread.</p>
<p>st georges has such a gorgeous campus. we pulled into the driveway and i fell in love with the school. how much better can it get-atop a hill overlooking newport bay. even the dining hall is beautiful</p>
<p>ConLax11,</p>
<p>I would agree that Taft has an attractive English-style campus, but I wouldn't call it Gothic. However, some people might not like all the buildings being in the same style. When I visited, I thought their was a lot of deferred maintenence. The older buildings on the Choate campus are reminiscient in style of the Georgian Colonial type structures that are found at the University of Virginia and Harvard. A lot of people find them quite attractive. By the way, the two newest buildings on campus were designed by the distinguished architect I. M. Pei. There is one intersection that runs through the Choate campus and it really isn't heavily traveled. Yale and Harvard have streets running through their campuses and many people admire their settings. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."</p>
<p>I love Loomis -- but I'm a Loomis alumna and it's colored my views of other schools. The freshet flooding in the spring is not a big deal. </p>
<p>Salisbury has the quintesenntial New England white frame main building with classic brick buildings on its quad.</p>
<p>Kent -- I had lived in the town for years but never been into the school until last spring. The architecture of the quad is lovely ... gives a very small community feeling with the hills hanging over you on one side and the river on the other.</p>
<p>St. Georges has a spectacular setting overlooking the ocean. </p>
<p>Hotchkiss doesn't do it for me ... </p>
<p>Avon is very unusual, and quite nice in its own way. The dorms -- well I thought the dorm room design was unusual but I could deal with it (as a parent). My son refused to go there! YMMV.</p>
<p>Deerfield is a different sort of campus, but very New England and historic. I would have loved going to school there.</p>
<p>Deerfield and St. Paul's.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville:</p>
<p><a href="http://tnight.net/photo-view.php?photo_id=36174%5B/url%5D">http://tnight.net/photo-view.php?photo_id=36174</a>
<a href="http://www.ripmanlighting.com/LMBT.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ripmanlighting.com/LMBT.html</a>
<a href="http://www.schooldesigns.com/ResultsDetail.asp?id=110%5B/url%5D">http://www.schooldesigns.com/ResultsDetail.asp?id=110</a></p>
<p>other Lawrenceville buildings:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jamescullionarchitects.com/academic/ac4.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jamescullionarchitects.com/academic/ac4.html</a>
<a href="http://www.jamescullionarchitects.com/museums/ms6.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jamescullionarchitects.com/museums/ms6.html</a>
<a href="http://www2.lawrenceville.org/ftpimages/63/news/large_news255816_180849.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www2.lawrenceville.org/ftpimages/63/news/large_news255816_180849.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.pkal.org/documents/LawrencevilleFMKirby.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://www.pkal.org/documents/LawrencevilleFMKirby.cfm</a>
<a href="http://www.schooldesigns.com/ResultsDetail.asp?id=559%5B/url%5D">http://www.schooldesigns.com/ResultsDetail.asp?id=559</a></p>
