Identifier	Centennial_00032
Title	Aerial view of Lugo House, St. Vincent's College
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	circa 1880
Subject (Topic)	School buildings--19th century; Universities and colleges--19th century; Cities and towns--19th century
Subject (Name)	St. Vincent's College (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Type	Image
Form/Genre	Photographs
Physical Description	1 photograph: black and white; 21 x 26 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Copyright Holder	Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	Loyola Marymount University Archives
Item/Call Number	Photographic prints 1A
Description	Black-and-white aerial photograph of Don Lugo's townhouse on the Plaza in downtown Los Angeles.
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
Additional Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Project note	Centennial