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In 1850, Henry Wells – founder of American Express (1850) and Wells Fargo (1852) – moved with his family from New York City to Aurora, a village on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, one of New York State’s Finger Lakes. In 1852, Wells purchased thirty-eight acres just south of the village beginning at Cayuga Lake and running eastward north of the ravine. He named his estate Glen Park and located his residence on the north side of Glen Park Ravine. The house was designed by noted architect A.J. Davis, while the grounds were designed by equally notable architect A.J. Downing. The following description of Glen Park is taken from a prospectus written in 1875. "The house is of Tuscan villa architecture – the outer walls are of blue limestone, the inner of brick with a chamber between, rendering them impervious to dampness and making the rooms cool in summer and warm in winter. The partitions of the main building are of brick from the foundations upward. The halls and rooms are spacious and sunny, commanding charming views from each window." In 1868, Wells College was established as "Wells Seminary" – one of the first women’s colleges in the United States. Henry Wells had the building for Wells Seminary constructed on property he donated. Not long after its construction, Wells Seminary burnt to the ground. The first building was replaced in 1890 by the current Main Building. Wells’ mansion was later donated to the college for its use. It is now part of the campus. After 136 years as a women’s college, Wells announced in October 2004 that it would become a co-educational institution in 2005. This drew student protests on campus. Some parents of students also became involved in the protests. Some of the students said that their protests were patterned after ones at Mills College in the early 1990s. A website called Wells for Women was established. After the college’s decision to adopt coeducation was approved by its board, students filed a lawsuit, which the courts rejected. The college adopted coeducation in 2005.

And slowly answered Arthur from the barge: "The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. …" Tennyson The Passing of Arthur

A small school with a progressive reputation, Bard sits high on a bluff above the Hudson River in Annandale, commanding views that have scarcely changed since the days of the Hudson River painters. Its original library, a perfectly proportioned Ionic temple built in 1893, is the ideal architectural accent for this American arcadia. Of ivory brick surrounded by weathered stone columns, this Greek Revival gem stands for the idea of America as a natural paradise where democracy could take root. … in his competition-winning design, Venturi argued that the best way to honor the temple’s classical symmetry was not to ape it but to contrast it. Attached to the western wall of the earlier annex, flaring slightly as it projects beyond the temple’s portico, his addition is colorful, varied and lop-sided where the temple is monochrome, uniform and symmetrical; flatly surfaced instead of deeply recessed; marked by horizontal bands that counter the temple’s columns. The addition is the temple’s dream of itself in another life – in modern life, in fact. … Windows create counterpoint patterns, and also adjust the addition into harmonious relationship with the temple. Their rhythm and proportions echo the Ionic colonnade, while the mullions suggest fluting and even impart an illusion of roundness. (New York Times, October 31, 1993)

Ludlow Hall is the main administrative building on campus, housing the Offices of the President, Vice President for Administration, the Dean of the College, Institute for Writing and Thinking, the Language and Thinking Program, Registrar, Alumni/ae Affairs and Development, and Human Resources. Ludlow Willink Hall was completed in 1869, the gift of sisters Miss Elizabeth Ludlow and Mrs. Cornelia Ann Willink, whose pastor at Trinity Church in New York City suggested the donation. It was the home of Robert Brinkerhoff Fairbairn, the "Great Warden" who first took office in 1882, until his retirement in 1888. Over the years it has been used as a college hall, alumni hall, and as faculty residences. Ludlow Willink Hall retains much of the charm of its ornate and yet warm 19th-century architecture.

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