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Chatham College Campus Scene
1935/1980
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Title
Chatham College Campus Scene
Creator
unknown
Identifier
MSP285.B004.F03.I05
Source Identifier
MSP285.B004.F03.I05
Description
Chatham College was originally founded in 1869 under the name Pennsylvania Female College, one of the earliest liberal arts colleges for women. In 1890 it became the Pennsylvania College for Women. Enrollment had doubled by 1940, and Andrew’s son Paul and his wife (who had lived in the Mellon mansion since 1921) donated their house to the college in that year to be used as a student center. In 1955 the institution changed its name to Chatham College, in honor of William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham. The Laura Falk Hall of Social Studies, the central portion of the three-part main academic building on the Chatham College campus, is pictured on the right. The other two portions are the Arthur E. Braun Hall of Administration, and the Coolidge Hall of Humanities. The building is located on the site of the college’s first building, Berry Hall, and was built in 1953. Today, Falk Hall houses most of the faculty offices as well as several classrooms. The non-denominational chapel, now called the “Campbell Memorial Chapel,” (left background) was built from 1948-1950 and construction of this new chapel was funded by almost $500,000 of anonymous gifts. The building is located on top of a hill overlooking the center of campus and Woodland Road. On the inside the auditorium seats over 800 people and the lower floors contain other smaller rooms used for various purposes. The tower above the chapel used to house Carillonic bells that would be rung every evening.
Subject
Colleges and universities--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Chatham College.
Chapels--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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