The Female Seminary in
Centreville, Maryland was built c. 1876 as a public schoolhouse intended exclusively for women. The pressed-brick building was built in a restrained
Victorian
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style, with two classrooms on each of two floors with a side passage. Separate education lasted for thirty years, and in 1907 the building was sold and converted for residential use.
See also
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Female seminaries
A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a sign ...
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Women in education in the United States
In the early colonial history of the United States, higher education was designed for men only. Since the 1800s, women's positions and opportunities in the educational sphere have increased. Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, women have surpass ...
References
External links
*, including photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
Defunct schools in Maryland
History of women in Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Female seminaries in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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