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This postcard shows modification to the porch at Wolfe Hall on the campus of the College of the Sisters of Bethany in Topeka, Kansas. The stone and concrete addition could possibly be credited to Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss. The building was located at Ninth and Polk Streets and was completed in 1872 to provide an Episcopalian education to young women from kindergarten through their second year of college. Classes were taught in the college's main building until a decline in enrollment forced the school to close in 1928. Wolfe Hall was demolished in 1959.
Date: Between 1911 and 1928
Item Number: 310944
Call Number: FK2.S.5 T.76 BC *20
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 310944
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Education
Built Environment - Function - Education - College or University
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Episcopal
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Bethany College, Topeka, Kansas
Education - Private
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Postcards
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