Brownell-Talbot School
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Brownell-Talbot School is Nebraska's oldest school, founded in 1863, and the state's only private, independent, co-educational, college preparatory day school. It is located in Omaha, Nebraska. It is a prep school in name but does in fact offer pre-kindergarten through high school.
[edit] History
On September 17, 1863, the Bishop of the Northwest Diocese Joseph Cruickshank Talbot opened Brownell Hall as a girls' boarding school; its name honored Thomas C. Brownell, the Bishop of Connecticut, who had raised much of the money necessary to open the school . It was located at present-day North 24th and Grand Streets in North Omaha, in what was once the town of Saratoga. The school occupied the building which had formerly been the Saratoga Springs Hotel.
The school is presently located on Happy Hollow Boulevard at the former site of the Happy Hollow Country Club.
[edit] Notable alumni and former students
- Buffalo Bill Cody's daughters
- Peter Fonda
- W. David Scott
- Jaime King
- Andy Roddick
- Chris Ware
