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An exterior view of the college in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) and Holmes Hall (left) [14] Pomona College was established as a coeducational and nonsectarian Christian institution on October 14, 1887, amidst a real estate boom and anticipated population influx precipitated by the arrival of a transcontinental railroad to Southern California.
An exterior view of Pomona College in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) [20] and Holmes Hall (left) [21] Before the idea of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College was founded in 1887. [22] Pomona began after a group of congregationalists envisioned a "New England-type" college on the West Coast.
Pomona College (/ p ə ˈ m oʊ n ə / ⓘ pə-MOH-nə [2]) is an elite [3] private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, and the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. [4] Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.
Pomona College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California (founded in Pomona, California), and part of the Claremont Colleges consortium Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pomona University .
Old horse stables Cal Poly at Pomona stands on the former Arabian horse ranch of cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg.. Events leading to the foundation of present-day Cal Poly Pomona began with the ending of the Voorhis School for Boys near Walnut Creek [18] in San Dimas, California, and its acquisition by the San Luis Obispo–based California Polytechnic School in 1938.
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Montgomery Art Gallery building in 2023. Pomona College established a separate School of Art and Design in 1892, [6] and incorporated it into the college c. 1913. [7] In 1958, responding to increased postwar interest in the arts, the Gladys K. Montgomery Art Center was completed adjacent to the art department in Rembrandt Hall, enabling the college to present its permanent collection in one ...
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