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Southern Seminary Main Building, originally known as the Hotel Buena Vista and now Main Hall of Southern Virginia University, is a historic hotel building located at Buena Vista, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a 3 1/2-story, brick and frame building in an eclectic combination of Queen Anne and French Renaissance style architecture.
Dr. Rowe moved the school to Buena Vista in 1900, and changed its name to Southern Seminary. It was located in the splendid Buena Vista Hotel, which had been built 10 years earlier to accommodate the large numbers of land speculators investigating the town's iron ore deposits. The iron boom was short-lived, however, and Rowe purchased the hotel.
The American Hotel Protective Association, founded in 1910 as a regional trade association in Chicago, [1] became the American Hotel Association in 1917. The AHA's first president, Frank Dudley, identified rapid expansion of the US hotel industry as vulnerable to a shortage of trained personnel which could not be filled by the then-common practice of recruiting European hotel workers.
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National Register of Historic Places in Buena Vista, Virginia (6 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Buena Vista, Virginia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Buena Vista: 2: Buena Vista Downtown Historic District: Buena Vista Downtown Historic District: September 30, 2009 : 2000 and 2100 blocks of Magnolia Ave. and adjacent blocks: Buena Vista: 3: Columbian Paper Company: August 12, 2024
A former seminary president defended his reputation as a good steward of Southern Baptists money in a federal lawsuit against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, escalating an already tense ...
Old Courthouse (Buena Vista, Virginia) S. W. N. Seay House; Southern Seminary Main Building This page was last edited on 16 February 2024, at 16:08 (UTC). ...