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A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
The Brown Fine Arts Center opened in 2003 after a two-year, $35 million building renovation, and now houses the art library, Art Department, as well as the Smith College Museum of Art. Designed by the New York-based Polshek Partnership Architects , the 164,000-gross-square-foot (15,236m 2 ) building was created to link the college with its ...
English: Photograph of the Lanning Fountain (In Memory of a Beautiful Life) located at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. The sculpture was created in 1911 by American sculptor Nellie Verne Walker in memory of Smith student Mary Tomlinson Lanning, and cast by the American Bronze Art Foundry, Chicago, Illinois (J. Berchem).
The first greenhouse at Smith College was constructed in 1893. [1] The Lyman Conservatory's greenhouses with 12,000 square feet (1,100 m 2) date from 1895, and house over 2500 species of plants for the instruction of Smith students in the plant sciences. These plants are selected from a wide variety of families and habitats; they comprise one ...
Located in Northampton, Massachusetts, Campus School of Smith College is a private elementary lab school that enrolls students from surrounding nearby communities through grades K-6. [1] While their school year lasts from early September until May, the school provides after-school programs as well as a June program the students can enroll in. [ 2 ]
There are seven, remaining homes from the 18th and early 19th century that make up the oldest buildings on the street. They include four homes owned by Smith College: 41 Elm Street is known as Duckett House built c. 1810 in Federal style but since altered with porches and ornamentation; 45 Elm Street now known as Chase House, formerly the Mary Burnham School for Girls originally built c. 1810 ...
Smith College for women was founded in Northampton in 1871. Today Smith is the largest of the Seven Sisters colleges. Well-known Smith alumnae include Sylvia Plath, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Tammy Baldwin, Gloria Steinem, Madeleine L'Engle, and Julia Child. The first game of women's basketball was played at Smith College in 1892.
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.The Smith College Archives document the life of the College by collecting materials created by students, faculty, administrative and departmental staff during the course of their time here.