Aerial view of Lugo House, St. Vincent's College
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Identifier |
Centennial_00032 |
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Title |
Aerial view of Lugo House, St. Vincent's College |
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Creator |
Unknown |
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Date Created |
circa 1880 |
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Subject (Topic) |
School buildings--19th century; Universities and colleges--19th century; Cities and towns--19th century |
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Subject (Name) |
St. Vincent's College (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
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Subject (Place) |
Los Angeles (Calif.) |
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Type |
Image |
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Form/Genre |
Photographs |
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Physical Description |
1 photograph: black and white; 21 x 26 cm. |
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Institution |
Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University |
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Country of Creation |
US |
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Copyright Statement |
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/ |
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Copyright Holder |
Loyola Marymount University |
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Collection Identifier |
Loyola Marymount University Archives |
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Item/Call Number |
Photographic prints 1A |
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Description |
Black-and-white aerial photograph of Don Lugo's townhouse on the Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. |
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Historical Background |
Loyola Marymount University traces its origins back to St. Vincent's College for Boys, founded in 1865 by the Vincentian Fathers. The first classes were held in a few rooms in a two-story townhouse on the Los Angeles Plaza built by Don Vicente Lugo in the 1840s. Two years later, the school moved to a permanent building on Hill Street, and the Lugo Adobe became a Chinese restaurant, which was later torn down in 1951. In 1884, President of St. Vincent's College, Reverend Aloysius Meyer, purchased a new campus on Grand Avenue and Washington Boulevard. The college moved to the new site in 1887. When St. Vincent's College closed in 1911, members of the Society of Jesus opened the high school division of their newly founded Los Angeles College. Due to rapid growth, the college moved to Venice Boulevard in 1917. A year later the school was incorporated as Loyola College of Los Angeles. Graduate instruction began in 1920 with the foundation of a separate law school. In 1929, Loyola College was |
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Additional Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Metacollection Identifier |
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/ |
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Project note |
Centennial |
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