General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace
86 Washington Street, Phone: +1 781-848-1640. Sylvanus Thayer 1785-1872 was dubbed "father of the military academy" at West Point because he thoroughly reorganized and put it on sound footing. He also endowed Thayer Academy in Braintree and Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
