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The school that would become Monmouth University was founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, a two-year junior college under Dean Edward G. Schlaefer. Created in New Jersey during the Great Depression, Monmouth Junior College was intended by Schlaefer to provide an opportunity for higher education to high school graduates in Monmouth County who could not afford to go away to college. [4]
New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on November 10, 1766, as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey; Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies, Malvern; Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, New Jersey; Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey
Shadow Lawn is a historic building on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.Built in 1927 for Hubert T. Parson, president of the F.W. Woolworth Company, it is one of the last large estate houses to be built before the Great Depression.
In Beach Haven, New Jersey, it designed the Baldwin Hotel (1883, burned 1960), Holy Innocents Episcopal Church (1881–82), and a number of summer homes for company executives. In 1881, the PRR hired the firm to design its main passenger terminal at Broad and Filbert streets in Center City Philadelphia, directly west of Philadelphia City Hall.
Wilson Hall may refer to: Wilson Hall (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s; Wilson Hall (Bucksport, Maine), a historic Methodist seminary building; Wilson Hall (Arkansas Tech University), Russellville, Arkansas, U.S. Wilson Hall (Miami University), Oxford, Ohio, U.S. Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne ...
University City is the easternmost portion of West Philadelphia, encompassing several Philadelphia universities. It is situated directly across the Schuylkill River from Center City . The University of Pennsylvania was instrumental in coining the name University City as part of a 1950s urban renewal and gentrification effort.
1925 – Mutual Benefit Life Building, 300 Broadway, Newark, New Jersey [9] NRHP-listed. 1928 – Home Office Building, 10 Park Pl, Newark, New Jersey [9] NRHP-listed. 1929 – East Orange City Hall, 44 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey [12] 1930 – American Insurance Company Building, 15 Washington St, Newark, New Jersey [9]