The Elmira College Old Campus is the historic part of
Elmira College
Elmira College is a private college in Elmira, New York. Founded as a college for women in 1855, it is the oldest existing college granting degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men. Elmira College became coeducational in a ...
in
Elmira, New York
Elmira () is a city and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County. The population was 26,523 at the 2020 cens ...
. Historically known as The Elmira Collegiate Seminary or The Elmira Female College, the college was the first in the
United States
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to offer to women a degree program on a par with programs offered to men. The contributing structures are significant examples of the architecture of the period. The contributing buildings are Cowles Hall, Hamilton House, Mark Twain's Study, Gillett Hall, Carnegie Science Hall, Fassett Commons, Tompkins Hall, and Hamilton Hall.
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Gallery
Image:Carnegie Hall Elmira.jpg, Carnegie Hall
Image:Hamilton Hall.jpg, Hamilton Hall
Image:Elmira College Cowles Hall panorama.jpg, Cowles Hall
Image:Cowles Hall 2.jpg, Cowles Hall entrance
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state)
Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state)
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Elmira, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Chemung County, New York
History of women in New York (state)
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