Arcadia College
Historic district
Ursuline Academy-Arcadia College Historic District is a national historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and one contributing object associated with Arcadia College. It developed between about 1889 and 1948 and includes representative examples of Romanesque Revival and Tudor Revival style architecture. They include a large brick chapel (1909); three-story, T-shaped administration building (1918); four-story classroom and dining hall (1914); three-story nun's house (1922); a large two-story priest residence (c. 1902); three-story brick laundry building (1889); carriage shed (1907); gymnasium (1930); spring house (1910); and stone grotto, stone bridge, and gateposts.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Missouri colleges that have closed, merged, changed names". Westminster College. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "(title unknown)". College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on October 15, 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Nostalgic Place Bed & Breakfast Inn". Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ Debbie Sheals (March 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Ursuline Academy-Arcadia College Historic District" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 1, 2017. (includes 24 photographs from 1998)
- Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations. 1982.
- Conard, ed. Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, vol. I. 1901. p. 53.
External links
- "Ursuline Academy". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved January 14, 2014.