Located in the quaint and historic shipbuilding city of Bath,
Maine, on the Kennebec River, the Hyde School campus was founded in
1966. Formerly the estate of shipbuilder John S. Hyde, the
sprawling 145-acre New England estate includes the historic Hyde
Mansion and carriage house, which houses classrooms and offices.
The Hyde grounds feature the Wheeler Library & Academic Wing
and an all-inclusive athletic center with field house, wrestling
room, entertainment center, weight and cardio rooms. The Student
Learning Center, built in 2006, houses a 5400-square-foot library,
a resource center, computer laboratory, and comfortable classrooms,
some of which overlook the picturesque campus grounds. Classrooms
include interactive plasma displays, known as Smart Boards. The
Student Union houses a 600-seat performing arts center, a 350-seat
dining hall, the campus mailroom, and a state-of-the-art music
studio where students write and record original music. Campus also
includes the 1915 Sunken Garden, Health Center, bookstore, and
café, the Student Cultural Center, the Spiritual Center,
three playing fields, including a turf field, an all-weather track,
indoor tennis and basketball courts, and several dormitories.
Year-round, students and faculty enjoy miles of wooded running,
bicycling, and cross-country skiing trails that extend beyond the
campus. Hyde students also enjoy a ropes course with zip line, a
600-acre wilderness facility located in the Bigelow Mountains in
Eustis, Maine, running, biking, and cross-country ski trails,
state-of-the-art music recording studio, climbing wall, and ice
skating ponds. The Joseph W. Gauld Student Life and Athletic Center
Complex, built in 2006, provides multiple options for athletes,
including a climbing wall, and comfortable gathering spaces in the
café, entertainment room, or gracious foyer, which is
equipped with a stone fireplace.
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