MONTGOMERY ALABAMA, HUNTINGDON, WOMENS COLLEGE, Executive Building, 1941

Description: Huntingdon College was chartered in 1854, as “Tuskegee Female College” by the Alabama State Legislature and Governor John A. Winston. The first president, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb laid the foundation of the college as a teaching college rather than a research institution. In 1872 the name was changed to “Alabama Conference Female College”, as the college came under the auspices of the “Methodist Episcopal Church”. As the college and the South struggled to rebuild following the Civil war, college leaders believed they needed to relocate the institution to a more populous city, and they chose the state’s capital, Montgomery. In 1908, they purchased a 58-acre parcel of land on what was then the outskirts of town. The campus landscaping was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had planned the Biltmore Estate and Central Park. The college, renamed as “Women’s College of Alabama, “moved all of its furniture, lab chemicals, and records into Hamner Hall in Montgomery on August 24, 1909. The building burned to the ground that night destroying the records of the college’s first 50 years and all its furnishings. The students and President William Martin moved to Sulllins College in Virginia for that school year, and continued construction on the college’s first buildings which were designed to emulate the collegiate Gothic architecture of Oxford and Cambridge universities in England, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The college admitted its first male students after WWI. Realizing that the name Woman’s College of Alabama no longer fit its student body, the college was renamed in 1935 as Huntingdon College. The campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Hutingdon College Campus Historic District. One of those buildings, the "Executive Building" is on this uncredited card. It is postmarked 1915, the first year of the White Border era and is in good condition. There are a few bends in the upper right corner and minor wear on the other corners and edges. The image is clean and clear as is the reverse. The colors on the card may vary due to the scanner settings and screen projections.Unless otherwise noted, I use Wikipedia, Playle's and Metropostcard for research and try to be as accurate as possible. Corrections appreciated. If this your card, it will be mailed promptly upon receipt of payment...... Free Shipping WorldWide.Thank you for your interest and I hope that I can help you with your collection..... Life and History on a Card",,,,Visit My eBay Store: HartsCardCart

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