Peabody Institute (other)
Peabody Institute, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (est.1857) is a private conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. The Peabody Institute may also refer to: * Peabody Institute Library (Peabody, Massachusetts), Peabody Institute Library (est.1852), 82 Main Street, Peabody, Massachusetts * Peabody Institute (Danvers, Massachusetts), Peabody Institute Library of Danvers (est.1856), 15 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA {{disambiguation ...
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Peabody Institute
The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University is a private conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1857 and opened in 1866 by merchant/financier and philanthropist George Peabody (1795–1869), and is the oldest conservatory in the United States. Its association with JHU in recent decades, begun in 1977, allows students to do research across disciplines. History George Peabody (1792–1869) founded the institute with a bequest of about $800,000 from his fortune made initially in Massachusetts and later augmented in Baltimore (where he lived and worked from 1815 to 1835) and vastly increased in banking and finance during following residences in New York City and London, where he became the wealthiest American of his time. Completion of the white marble Grecian-Italianate west wing/original building housing the institute, designed by Edmund George Lind, was delayed by the Civil War. It was dedicated in 1866, with Peabody himself ...
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