Identifier	Centennial_00035
Title	St. Vincent's College, Meyer Auditorium interior
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	circa 1890
Subject (Topic)	Auditoriums; College campuses--California--Los Angeles; School buildings--19th century; Universities and colleges--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
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Copyright Holder	Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	Loyola Marymount University Archives
Item/Call Number	Photo Prints 1A
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.
Cited In	Starr, Kevin. Loyola Marymount University, 1911-2011: A Centennial History. Los Angeles: Loyola Marymount University, 2011.
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.
Additional Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Project note	Centennial