Horace Dutton Taft

[1] He graduated from Yale University in 1883, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and won the Townsend Prize.[3] In 1890 he opened a college preparatory school for boys in Pelham Manor, New York.By 1913, the school had outgrown the hotel, and Mr. Taft commissioned the first permanent campus building, a collegiate Gothic castle known as HDT, after Horace Dutton Taft and designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, with landscape architecture by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.[4] Taft retired as headmaster in 1936,[5][6] but continued to teach a course in Civics until his death.[7] On June 29, 1892, he married Winifred Shepard Thompson, an art teacher at a New Haven high school who was originally from Buffalo, New York.

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