Main Building (Vassar College)
Old Main | |
 Old Main in 2007, seen from near the entrance to campus | |
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| Location | Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Built | 1861 |
| Architect | James Renwick, Jr. |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001183 |
| Added to NRHP | September 19, 1973[1] |
Old Main, sometimes referred to as Main Building or is a building on the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was built by James Renwick Jr. in the Second Empire style in 1861, the second building in the history of what was one of America's first women's colleges.
It was taken over by protesters in 1971.
It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1986.[2],[3],[4]
The Vassar Observatory, the first building built on the Vassar campus, is also a National Historic Landmark.
External links
- Main Building (1865), at Vassar Encyclopedia
- [http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/index.php/Claudia_Lynn_Thomas_'71:Takeover_of_Main_Building,_1969
Takeover of Main Building, 1971, at Vassar Encyclopedia] Template:Geolinks-US-buildingscale
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
- ^ a b "Old Main, Vassar College". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-17.
- ^ [[[:Template:PDFlink]] "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination"]. National Park Service. 1978.
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