1905 Richmond Female Institute - Womans College of Richmond VA Virginia Yearbook for Sale

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1905 Richmond Female Institute - Womans College of Richmond VA Virginia Yearbook For Sale

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1905 Richmond Female Institute - Womans College of Richmond VA Virginia Yearbook:
$100.00

original , 1905 Womans College of Richmond Virginia Yearbook. formally - (Richmond Female Institute)
\" Puffs and Patches \" WCR.fairly rare , and seldom offered yearbook. Some local advertisements at back of book.
second page loose from book. some light discoloring to pages. some light staining to upper right corners.
NOTE: cover fair , pages school appears to have ended in 1916here is early history taken from the internet.Since the early nineteenth century, schools had been numerous in the Court End. We have already discussed the Richmond Academy. Several different schools at various times occupied Edmund Randolph’s house. The Rev. Henry Keeling, a Baptist minister, conducted a school just east of the African Church. Far more ambitious than any of these was the Richmond Female Institute, built on the site of the frame house of John Harvie. Designed by Thomas A. Tefft of Providence, it was along the lines of what was then conceived to be an Italian villa.The first president was the Rev. Basil Manly. This institution, under Baptist auspices, was prepared to take two hundred and fifty pupils, and had both preparatory and collegiate departments, as well as a “department of ornamental branches.” However far all of this was from present college standards, the Woman’s College, as it was later called, undoubtedly enjoyed priority in the region of Richmond in attempting higher education for women.The school was soon to claim another sort of priority—that of raising the first Confederate flag to fly in the city. This was on March 14, 1861. Dr. Charles H. Winston, who had succeeded President Manly two years before, promptly had it taken down, but “the determined young ladies” put it up again the next day! During the Civil War the big building was used as a hospital for officers, the school being first moved to the Brockenbrough-Caskie house and later closed for three years. In 1914 the Woman’s College was merged with the University of Richmond and the former building, after being used for various purposes for another decade, was replaced by the present Mechanics’ Institute building.

Established in 1853, the Richmond Female Institute served as General Hospital #4 from June 1863 to February 1865, with a maximum capacity of 300 patients. [RWH]

In 1893, Dr. Frederic W. Boatwright promoted the admission of women students to Richmond College. The existing campus between Broad and Franklin Streets was deemed insufficiently large to house both institutions, so the Richmond Female Institute was re-purposed as the Women’s College of Richmond. When new campus was acquired in the land surrounding Westhampton Lake in the West End, the Women’s College relocated to it, along with Richmond College, and was renamed Westhampton College.