The Mary Baldwin University, Main Building is a historic building on the
Mary Baldwin University
Mary Baldwin University (MBU, formerly Mary Baldwin College) is a private university in Staunton, Virginia. It was founded in 1842 as Augusta Female Seminary. Today, Mary Baldwin University is home to the Mary Baldwin College for Women, a resid ...
campus in
Staunton, Virginia
Staunton ( ) is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 25,750. In Virginia, independent cities a ...
. It was built in 1844, and is a
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
style educational building. It consists of a two-story, five bay central section, flanked by three-bay two-story wings with full basement and projecting gable ends. The front facade features a four-bay portico with four Greek
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...
columns supporting a Doric entablature and pediment.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
(NRHP) in 1973.[
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See also
Hilltop, C. W. Miller House, and Rose Terrace Rose Terrace may refer to:
* Rose Terrace (Evansville, Indiana), United States
* Rose Terrace (Grosse Point Farms, Michigan), Anna Dodge's mansion near Detroit, United States
*Rose Terrace (Perth, Scotland), Georgian street in Perth, Scotland
*Rose ...
are other NRHP-listed buildings on the campus.
References
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Staunton, Virginia
School buildings completed in 1844
Mary Baldwin University
Buildings and structures in Staunton, Virginia
Greek Revival architecture in Virginia
University and college administration buildings in the United States
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