Founded in 1856, St. Paul’s School is a highly academic, 100 percent boarding school located 68 miles north of Boston, situated on a historic campus of 2,000 wooded acres in New Hampshire's state capital. Among its facilities are 19 dormitories, Ohrstrom Library, Friedman Community Center, the Performing Arts Center, Hawley Astronomy Center, the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul, the Lindsay Center for Mathematics and Science, and a newly renovated Visual Arts Building and Crumpacker Gallery. Sports facilities include the 95,000-square-foot Athletic & Fitness Center, an 8-lane indoor pool, 2 climbing walls, 2 hockey rinks, squash and tennis courts, a 2,000-meter rowing course with boathouse, and 9 athletic fields, including a lighted artificial-turf field.