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Claverack College, also known as Washington Seminary and Hudson River Institute, was a coeducational boarding school in Claverack, New York, United States. Founded as a boys' academy, it operated from 1779 until 1902. It added a girls' school in the mid-19th century.
Claverack College occupied an elevated twenty-acre campus with the Catskill Mountains only eight mikes away. The building, erected in 1830, was a four-story structure with 146 student rooms, thirteen rooms for teachers, 12 lecture and recitation halls, twenty-eight music, literary society, and reading rooms, a library, a chapel, offices and 35 ...
9 de mar. de 2018 · The college closed in 1902, and the property has been the summer retreat of a NYC based home for children, a boys boarding school and, from 1988 to 2007, the working studio and residence of the fantastical Russian artist, Mihail Chemiakin.
This collection contains postcards and photographs related to Claverack College and Hudson River Institute. This includes images of the campus, as well as several class portraits. The collection also contains photographs of Claverack College sports teams from the mid-nineteenth century.
Learn about the origins, curriculum, and facilities of Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, a coeducational boarding school in Columbia County, New York. Founded in 1854, it offers eleven departments of instruction, a collegiate course for women, and a military program.
Founded in 1854, Claverack College was a respected coeducational institution and successful stepping stone to a university education. Its 1889 brochure read: "The design of this institution is to afford facilities for thorough and systematic education to young men and women, and at the same time furnish them a comfortable, cultured christian home."
The George Felpel House is located on NY 9H in Claverack-Red Mills, New York, United States. It is a stone Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Revival house built in the 1920s. Its stones are the remnants of Claverack College, which existed on the property from 1779 to 1902.
