St. Vincent's College, Meyer Auditorium interior
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Identifier |
Centennial_00035 |
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Title |
St. Vincent's College, Meyer Auditorium interior |
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Creator |
Unknown |
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Date Created |
circa 1890 |
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Subject (Topic) |
Auditoriums; College campuses--California--Los Angeles; School buildings--19th century; Universities and colleges--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 |
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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 |
Photo Prints 1A |
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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 the Lugo Adobe House at the southeast end of Olvera Street in Los Angeles. Two years later, the school moved to Hill Street. 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. The Meyer Auditorium was part of the college expansion in the mid-1890s, and it was named in honor of Father Meyer. 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 relocated to the Westchester campus, and the school achieved university status one year later, becoming Loyola University of Los Angeles. Loyola University and Marymount College partnered with St. Joseph College of Orange began affiliation in 1968, and officially merged into Loyola Marymount University in 1973. |
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Cited In |
Starr, Kevin. Loyola Marymount University, 1911-2011: A Centennial History. Los Angeles: Loyola Marymount University, 2011. |
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Image Caption |
"Meyer Auditorium underscored the architectural and institutional ambition of a college that, paradoxically, would soon be shutting its doors" --Starr, K., Loyola Marymount University 1911-2011. |
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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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