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The South Caroliniana Library is located on the university's Historic Horseshoe. Begun in 1838 and completed in 1840, the Robert Mills-designed building was the first free standing college library in the country. [10] Mills used the reading room of the Library of Congress that housed Thomas Jefferson's collection as the basis for his design. [11]
Old pecan grove near the Thomas B. Cooper store. Early Residents. Samuel S. Sarvis (1843 - 1931) Samuel S. Sarvis was a confederate veteran and served with the SC ...
In 1946, the Chicago-based American School of Physical Education merged into DePaul University. [12] In 1954, DePaul adopted its current armorial seal with coat of arms and motto: "Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi" ("I will show you the way of wisdom", Proverbs, IV, 11). In 1955, the Frank J. Lewis Foundation donated the 18-story Kimball Building ...
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The Theatre School at DePaul University This page was last edited on 17 March 2024, at 19:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The library, completed in the mid-1990s, reflected a shift to designs closer to earlier Romanesque Revival architecture. It was named in honor of Thomas E. Leavey, the founder of Farmers Insurance Group, and his wife, Dorothy Leavey. [1] [2] The donation was made through their Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation in 1994. [1] [2]
Construction of University Auditorium began in 1906 and was completed in 1907. [3] During World War I , the facility served as barracks for the Student Army Training Corps. [ 4 ] In 1920, the venue was remodeled into a gymnasium [ 5 ] and the DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team first played in the facility in 1923. [ 3 ]
Thomas Cooper de Leon served in the Confederate army from 1861 to 1865, and after the Civil War he edited The Mobile Register, The Gossip, and the Gulf Citizen (both Mobile papers; 1873–96). For many years, he managed the Mobile Mardi Gras Carnival.