Alexander Twilight - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

• Alexander Twilight House (1830), still stands across the street from the hall, and serves as headquarters for the Orleans County Historical Society. It is within the Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

• Athenian Hall (1834–36) is now operated by the Orleans County Historical Society as the Old Stone House Museum, and anchors the Historic District of Brownington. It was the first granite public building in Vermont.

Howard Frank Mosher, Vermont Life Magazine, Autumn, 1996:

"I like the way the Stone House still looms up on that hilltop, where the wind blows all the time. There it sits, unshaken and monolithic, as I write this sentence and as you read it, every bit as astonishing today as the day it was completed. What a tribute to the faith of its creator, the Reverend Alexander Twilight: scholar, husband, teacher, preacher, legislator, father-away-from-home to nearly 3,000 boys and girls, an African American and a Vermonter of great vision, whose remains today lie buried in the church-yard just up the maple-lined dirt road from his granite school, in what surely was, and still is, one of the last best places anywhere."

• The Alexander Twilight Auditorium at Lyndon State College is named in Twilight's memory.

• Alexander Twilight Hall at Middlebury College was named in Twilight's memory.

• The Aspire Alexander Twilight College Preparatory Academy in Sacramento, CA was named in Twilight's memory. It opened in Fall 2009.