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Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.
The Moravian Grist Mill, built from stone in 1770, was the first permanent building in the village. [3] It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1942. [5] The mill complex is now the Inn at Millrace Pond. [6] The Gemeinhaus or Moravian Church is a two and one-half story stone structure built in 1781.
(absorbed by St. John's College when the latter was founded) Province of Maryland: 1696 1784 Church of England: Kent County Free School (absorbed by Washington College when the latter was founded) Province of Maryland: 1723 1782 Nonsectarian Bethlehem Female Seminary (Moravian University) Province of Pennsylvania: 1742 1863 Moravian Church ...
[44] [45] [46] The map also implies that the Hoops inn was on the west side of the road, approximately at present-day address 6451 S. Main St (US-11). Fifteen Moravian settlers, traveling with a large wagon, noted that they passed by the tavern and stopped briefly at the "German" inn on October 16, 1753; they were on their way from Bethlehem ...
In 1871, the store was moved to a building near the Central Moravian Church on Main Street in Bethlehem. The store occupies the same space to this day, though it has expanded several times in the intervening 140 years and now fills 14,000 square feet (1,300 m 2) in four buildings. The bookstore is now owned by the Ministers' Pension Fund of the ...
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Meyer later opened Bethlehem's first apothecary in 1743 within the building, which later moved into the Bell House until a laboratory was constructed along present-day Main Street in 1752. The 1752 Apothecary, part of the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, was the oldest pharmacy in continuous operation in the United States up until its closing in ...
Solomon House is an 1887 brick-and-brownstone building at 17th and Moravian Streets in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the architectural firm of Furness & Evans, headed by Frank Furness, Philadelphia's leading architect in the last quarter of the 19th century. It was built as the southernmost of a row of five city ...