Colorado Women's College
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1888 - 1973
- Usage: 1973 - 1982
- Usage: 1888 - 1966
- Usage: 1966 - 1973
Biography
College created in 1888 as Colorado Woman's College. Its name changed to Temple Buell College in 1966, and changed again to Colorado Women's College in 1973 and merged into the University of Denver in 1982.
Sources
Card Catalog. Administration- Board of Trustees.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Buildings - Colorado Womens College, 1981-1982
File
Identifier: U201.01.0135.0060
Abstract
Black and white negatives related to buildings of the Colorado Women's College, absorbed by the University of Denver in 1982, and developed as its Park Avenue Campus. Later sold to Johnson & Wales University in 1999.
Dates:
1981-1982
Colorado Women's College (1888-1982) Records
Collection
Identifier: M130
Abstract
Colorado Woman's College was conceived as a "Vassar of the West" by its founder, the Rev. Robert Cameron, who wanted to establish a women's college in the Western United States that would offer high-level academics to women. Cameron was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Denver. The sponsoring body was inadvertently incorporated in 1888 as the Woman's College Society (amended to Colorado Woman's College Society the following year), though it did not open until 1909. Located in...
Dates:
1888-1982
Eugene Dawson Papers
Collection
Identifier: M116
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Eugene Dawson Papers