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La Roche University was founded in 1963 as La Roche College by the Sisters of Divine Providence as a private college for religious sisters. It was named in honor of Stephanie Amelia la Roche von Starkenfels, the first Mother Superior of the Sisters of Divine Providence. The first president of the university was Sister Annunciata Sohl, C.D.P ...
It is located in the Civic Center neighborhood near the San Francisco City Hall on Van Ness Avenue. The building, completed in 1974, stands 400 feet (122 m) and has 29 floors of former office space that housed the California State Automobile Association (CSAA).
San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center , it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.
San Francisco State University: Public: 1899 [1] 27,815 University of San Francisco: Private: 1855 [1] 11,086 Golden Gate University: Private: 1901 [1] 5,120 University of California, San Francisco: Public: Medical school: 1864 [2] 5,908 University of California College of the Law, San Francisco: Public: Law school: 1878 [1] ≈1,000 San ...
College of New Rochelle (New Rochelle, New York) - founded in 1904 as New York state's first Catholic college for women; merged into Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, New York) College of Saint Mary-of-the-Wasatch ( Salt Lake City, Utah )
Immaculata University, Malvern (co-ed since 2005; Villa Maria College 1920–1929; Immaculata College 1929–2002) La Roche University, McCandless (co-ed since 1970; La Roche College until 2019) Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, Pittsburgh (closed by Carnegie Mellon University in 1973)
Photograph of Civic Center with Civic Auditorium and San Francisco City Hall (under construction) in the background, circa 1916. After San Francisco was selected in 1911 to host the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, numerous civic improvements were proposed, and a commission was set up to judge entries for a City Hall design ...
City College of New York: February 22, 1961 ... San Francisco State University: April 9, 1964 ... La Roche University: May 13, 1992