Baltimore, MARYLAND - Women's College & First Methodist Episcopal Church - 1912 for Sale

Baltimore, MARYLAND - Women's College & First Methodist Episcopal Church - 1912 For Sale

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Baltimore, MARYLAND - Women's College & First Methodist Episcopal Church - 1912:
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Baltimore, MARYLAND - Women's College & First Methodist Episcopal Church - 1912: Goucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287-acre (1.2 km²) campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 33 majors and six interdisciplinary programs and approximately 900 students studying in graduate programs. Goucher College and Susquehanna University are the only colleges in the United States that require a study abroad experience. In 1881, the Baltimore Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church passed a resolution to found a conference seminary. This momentum went largely unquestioned until 1884, when Bishop Andrews objected, "I would not give a fig for a weakling little thing of a seminary. We want such a school, so ample in its provisions, of such dignity in its buildings, so fully provided with the best apparatus, that it shall draw to itself the eyes of the community and that young people shall feel it an honor to be enrolled among its students." Methodist ministers John Franklin Goucher (1845–1922), and John B. Van Meter fought hard in favor of founding a college rather than a seminary, eventually winning unanimous agreement at a later conference. The college succeeded an earlier ground-breaking institution known as the Baltimore Female College, located originally on St. Paul Street near East Saratoga Street (present site of Preston Gardens) from 1849, and later relocated to Park Avenue and Park Place near Wilson Street in Bolton Hill. It had been sponsored by the local Methodist Episcopal Church also, however, under the leadership of noted classics scholar, Nathan C. Brooks, (1809–1898). He was the first principal of the state and city's first public high school (the third oldest in America), founded 1839, now known as The Baltimore City College. It closed in the late 1880s. The new Methodist-sponsored college for women was founded as the "Women's College of Baltimore City" on January 26, 1885. Although students of all religious backgrounds were accepted, as founders, the national denomination (the Methodist Episcopal Church and its Baltimore Annual Conference), had a large impact on the college and its campus. The school was renamed in 1910 to "Goucher College" in honor of its founding member, John Goucher, his wife, Mary Fisher Goucher, and benefactors. It was one of only six "Class I" colleges for women in the U.S. The original campus was on St. Paul Street at Twenty-third Street of the neighborhood of north Baltimore, then known as Peabody Heights since the 1870s in the southern part of what is now the Charles Village neighborhood (renamed in 1967) in the city of Baltimore. Goucher moved to its present suburban location northeast of the county seat of Towson in Baltimore County in 1953. This Divided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1912, is in good conditon, but shows some edge wear. F. M. Kirby. Baltimore, MD.