Thayer Academy
Thayer Academy is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory day school located in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. The academy, conceived in 1871 at the bequest of General Sylvanus Thayer, known as the father of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and founder of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, was established in 1877.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: School
- Description: private school in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
- Address: 745 Washington Street, Braintree, MA 02184
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Thayer Public Library and Braintree Station.
Thayer Public Library
Library
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The Thayer Public Library is a public library located in the town of Braintree, Massachusetts with 102,000 books, 200 periodical subscriptions, and 8,000 videos, DVDs, music CDs, and audiobooks. The library is a member of the Old Colony Library Network. Thayer Public Library is situated 940 feet southeast of Thayer Academy.
Braintree Station
Metro station
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Braintree station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority intermodal transit station in Braintree, Massachusetts. It serves the rapid transit Red Line plus the Fall River/New Bedford Line and Kingston Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system. Braintree Station is situated 1,300 feet east of Thayer Academy.
Sunset Lake
Lake
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Sunset Lake is water body located in Norfolk County in Eastern Massachusetts, United States, in the south side of the town of Braintree.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braintree and Braintree Split.
Braintree
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Braintree is a town of 37,000 people on the South Shore in Southeastern Massachusetts. It is located along several major thoroughfares, making it convenient to Boston.
Braintree Split
Locality
The Braintree Split is the major interchange of Interstate 93, U.S. Route 1, and Route 3 in Braintree, Massachusetts, one of the South Shore suburbs of Boston. Braintree Split is situated 1½ miles northwest of Thayer Academy.
Quincy
Photo: Sswonk, Public domain.
Quincy is in Massachusetts. Quincy was the birthplace of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. United States Declaration of Independence signer and first Massachusetts governor John Hancock was also born here.
Thayer Academy
- Category: education
- Location: City of Braintree Town, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.20751° or 42° 12′ 27″ northLongitude
-71.00658° or 71° 0′ 24″ westElevation
131 feet (40 metres)Open location code
87JC6X5V+29OpenStreetMap ID
way 524752096OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Thayer Academy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أكاديمية ثاير”
- Armenian: “Թայերի ակադեմիա”
- Belarusian: “Акадэмія Таера”
- Chinese: “塞耶爾學院”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكاديميه ثاير”
- French: “Thayer Academy”
- Georgian: “თეიერის აკადემია”
- Hebrew: “אקדמיית ת’אייר”
- Japanese: “セイヤー・アカデミー”
- Swedish: “Thayer Academy”
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