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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.
Claverack College, también conocido como Washington Seminary y Hudson River Institute, era un internado mixto en Claverack, Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Fundada como academia para niños, funcionó desde 1779 hasta 1902. Agregó una escuela para niñas a mediados del siglo XIX.
In the nineteenth century the school was renamed Claverack College; it closed in 1902. The many 18th-century homes in the area include the 1786 William Henry Ludlow House .
At 16, Margaret left Corning and began attending Claverack College on a scholarship in 1896. Her older sisters helped finance the school expenses and Margaret waited tables for her room and board. Margaret loved the academic environment at Claverack, but soon had to return to Corning to care for her ailing mother.
