Huntingdon College

Huntingdon College
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Motto	; Enter to Grow in Wisdom, Go Forth to Apply Wisdom in Service.;
Type	; Private college;
Established	; 1854
Affiliation	; United Methodist Church;
President	; J. Cameron West
Academic staff	; 58
Students	; 1,107
Location	; Montgomery, Alabama, United States; 32°21′00″N 86°17′06″W / 32.350°N 86.285°W / 32.350; -86.285Coordinates: 32°21′00″N 86°17′06″W / 32.350°N 86.285°W / 32.350; -86.285;
Campus	; Suburban Neighborhood
Colors	; Scarlet and grey ;
Athletics	; 15 Varsity Teams, ; NCAA Division III;
Mascot	; Hawks
Website	; www.huntingdon.edu; ;
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	; Huntingdon College Campus Historic District;
	; U.S. National Register of Historic Places;
	; U.S. Historic district;
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	; Flowers Memorial Hall was built in 1909;
Area	; 58 acres (23 ha)
Architectural style	; Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP reference #	; 00000138
Added to NRHP	; February 24, 2000
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Huntingdon College is a private liberal arts college in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1854 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

History[edit]

Woman's College of Alabama in 1918

Huntingdon College was chartered on February 2, 1854, as "Tuskegee Female College" by the Alabama State Legislature and Governor John A. Winston. The first president was Andrew Adgate Lipscomb. Dr. Lipscomb laid the foundation of the college as a teaching college rather than a research institution.

In 1872 the name was changed to "Alabama Conference Female College" as the college came under the auspices of the United Methodist Church. As the college and the South struggled to rebuild following the Civil War, it became clear to college leaders that growth and stability were dependent upon relocation to a more populous city—and they chose the state's capital. A 58-acre (235,000 m²) parcel of land on what was then the outskirts of town and is now the beautiful Old Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery was selected in 1908. The design for the landscape of the campus was provided by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had also planned the Biltmore Estate. The college, renamed once again to "Woman's College of Alabama," moved all of its furniture, lab chemicals, and records into Hamner Hall in Montgomery August 24, 1909, but the building burned to the ground that night, destroying the records of the college's first 50 years and all of its belongings. As the students and President William Martin moved to Sullins College in Virginia for that school year, construction continued on the college's first building, John Jefferson Flowers Memorial Hall. Completed in 1910 and designed by Harvard architect H. Langford Warren, Flowers Hall was designed to emulate the collegiate Gothic architecture of Oxford and Cambridge, England, and of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and set the tone for the pervasive architectural style of campus buildings henceforth.

The college admitted its first male students in the aftermath of World War I, graduating the first male student in 1934. Realizing that the name Woman's College of Alabama no longer fit its student body, the college's final name change came in 1935 when Huntingdon College was adopted in honor of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, a notable supporter of John Wesley and of Methodism.

Huntingdon today offers more than 20 undergraduate programs of study and 15 NCAA-III intercollegiate athletic teams that participate in the USA South Athletic Conference. Between 2002 and 2012, enrollment jumped by 53% in the traditional day program and 88% overall (594 to 1118), prompting the Chronicle of Higher Education to list Huntingdon among its 2014 list of "Fastest Growing Colleges in America."

Campus[edit]

Huntingdon's campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Huntingdon College Campus Historic District.^[1] The district contains thirteen contributing buildings, built in the Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles, and one site.^[3] The district was placed on the NRHP on February 24, 2000.^[1]

Houghton Memorial Library

Athletics[edit]

Huntingdon College teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Hawks are a member of the USA South Athletic Conference. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. Huntingdon is the only four-year college in the state of Alabama to offer collegiate wrestling.^[4]

The "Red Lady"[edit]

Huntingdon College is the home of the "Red Lady," alleged to be the ghost of a female student from the early twentieth century who committed suicide inside her room in Pratt Hall. This story is told in Huntingdon alumna Kathryn Tucker Windham's 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.^[5]

Huntingdon alumni[edit]

Notable Huntington alumni include:

Former US Attorney Leura Garrett Canary (1978)

Professional golfer Joe Durant (1987)

Rear admiral Elizabeth A. Hight (1977)

US Attorney General, US Senator Jeff Sessions (1969)

Writer Kathryn Tucker Windham (1939)

References[edit]

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^ "Huntingdon College Walking Tour: John Jefferson Flowers Memorial Hall". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

^ Entzweiler, Susan M.; Trina Binkley (August 1999). "Huntingdon College Campus Historic District". National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. National Park Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
See also: "Accompanying photos". Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

^ Huntingdon College (AL) Announces New NCAA Division III Wrestling Program for 2014-15 Season

^ Windham, Kathryn Tucker: Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Chapter 11: "The Red Lady of Huntingdon College." University of Alabama Press, 2014: pp. 97-104.

External links[edit]

Official website

Official athletics website

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[2] "Huntingdon College Walking Tour: John Jefferson Flowers Memorial Hall". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

[3] Entzweiler, Susan M.; Trina Binkley (August 1999). "Huntingdon College Campus Historic District". National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. National Park Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
See also: "Accompanying photos". Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

[4] Huntingdon College (AL) Announces New NCAA Division III Wrestling Program for 2014-15 Season

[5] Windham, Kathryn Tucker: Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Chapter 11: "The Red Lady of Huntingdon College." University of Alabama Press, 2014: pp. 97-104.

v t e Colleges and universities in Alabama
Public institutions	Alabama Alabama A&M Alabama State Auburn Auburn Montgomery Jacksonville State Montevallo North Alabama South Alabama Troy UAB UAHuntsville West Alabama
Private institutions	Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine Amridge Birmingham–Southern Columbia Southern Concordia Faulkner Heritage Christian Huntingdon Judson Miles Mobile Oakwood Samford Selma Southeastern Bible College Spring Hill Stillman Talladega Tuskegee United States Sports Academy Virginia College
Community/junior colleges	Bevill State CC Bishop State CC Calhoun CC Central Alabama CC Chattahoochee Valley CC Coastal Alabama CC Coastal Alabama CC Brewton Coastal Alabama CC Monroeville Enterprise State CC Gadsden State CC H. Council Trenholm State TC J. F. Drake State TC J. F. Ingram State TC Jefferson State CC Lawson State CC Lurleen B. Wallace CC Marion Military Institute Northeast Alabama CC Northwest Shoals CC Reid State TC Shelton State CC Snead State CC Southern Union State CC Wallace CC Wallace State CC Hanceville Wallace State CC Selma
Upper level colleges	Athens State University

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Alabama
National Historic Landmarks	Alabama State Capitol Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed United States Post Office and Courthouse – Montgomery
Historic districts	Alabama State University Historic District City of St. Jude Historic District Cloverdale Historic District Cottage Hill Historic District Court Square–Dexter Avenue Historic District Dowe Historic District Garden District Huntingdon College Campus Historic District Lower Commerce Street Historic District Maxwell Air Force Base Senior Officers' Quarters Historic District North Lawrence–Monroe Street Historic District Ordeman–Shaw Historic District Perry Street Historic District South Perry Street Historic District
Other properties	Bell Building Brame House Patrick Henry Brittan House Building 800–Austin Hall Building 836–Community College of the Air Force Building Cassimus House Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 Jefferson Davis Hotel Edgewood First White House of the Confederacy Gay House Gerald–Dowdell House Governor's Mansion Grace Episcopal Church Harrington Archaeological Site Jefferson Franklin Jackson House Jere Shine Site Gov. Thomas G. Jones House McBryde–Screws–Tyson House Mt. Zion AME Zion Church Muklassa The Murphy House Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Opp Cottage Pastorium, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Pepperman House Powder Magazine St. John's Episcopal Church Sayre Street School Scott Street Firehouse Semple House Shepherd Building Smith–Joseph–Stratton House Stay House Steiner–Lobman and Teague Hardware Buildings Stone Plantation Tankersley Rosenwald School Dr. C.A. Thigpen House Tulane Building Tyson–Maner House Winter Building Winter Place William Lowndes Yancey Law Office
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Alabama and List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

v t e USA South Athletic Conference
Full members with football	Averett Brevard Greensboro Huntingdon LaGrange Maryville Methodist North Carolina Wesleyan
Full, non-football members	Agnes Scott^† Berea Covenant Mary Baldwin^† Meredith^† Pfeiffer Piedmont Salem^† Wesleyan (GA)^† William Peace
^† Women's sports only

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