Old Main | |
 Old Main Building, Upland, Pennsylvania, November 2009 | |
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| Location | 21st St. and Upland Ave., Upland, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°51′21″N 75°22′17″W / 39.85583°N 75.37139°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1857 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001626[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 18, 1973 |
The Crozer Theological Seminary was a Baptist seminary located in Upland, Pennsylvania, and founded in 1868. It was named after the wealthy industrialist, John Price Crozer.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951,[2] being elected student body president[3] and graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree.[4]
In 1970, the seminary merged with the Rochester Theological Seminary, forming the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York and the seminary's Old Main building was subsequently used as office space by Crozer Hospital (now part of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center.) The Old Main building is a three-story, F-shaped, stucco-coated stone building with three pavilions connected by a corridor with flanking rooms. Each of the pavilions is topped by a gable roof and cupola, the largest cupola being on the central pavilion.[5] The seminary's grounds are now the Crozer Arboretum.
The Old Main building in Upland was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Nojeim, Michael J. (2004). Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 179. ISBN 0-275-96574-0
- ^ Frady, Marshall (2002). Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-303648-7.
- ^ Downing, Frederick L. (1986). To See the Promised Land: The Faith Pilgrimage of Martin Luther King, Jr. Mercer University Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-86554-207-4
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2005-09-14. Retrieved 2012-01-07. Note: This includes Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Old Main" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-06.