Valparaiso Collegiate Institute
- Valparaiso Collegiate Institute
Valparaiso Collegiate Institute was an institution of secondary education in Valparaiso, Indiana. It was opened in 1861 by the Presbyterians in the community after the Methodists in 1850 had opened the Valparaiso Male and Female College (which later became what is now the Lutheran Valparaiso University).
The Collegiate Institute was located on the lot where the city's Central Elementary School now stands. The Institute was a two-story building with four large rooms. When a system of public schools was organized in 1871, the trustees purchased theInstitute and used the building as a public school. The original building was expanded by adding a third story, and also by building an exact replica just to the north and connecting the two structures, producing a sixteen large rooms and a chapel.
The structure was structure was torn down in 1903.
References
* [http://www.ci.valparaiso.in.us/cityhistory/cityhistory/CHCenterTwnshp/CenterTownshipHistory.pdf "History of Center Township on the Occasion of the first Centennial of Porter County] Compiled by the Schools of Center Township, Vernon L. Beach, Trustee; A. G. Kinne, Chairman 1936
* [http://www.valpo.k12.in.us/cnel/indexold.php Central Elementary School History]
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