Longmont College | |
Designated Other1: | Colorado |
Designated Other1 Date: | August 12, 1987 |
Designated Other1 Number: | 5BL.1153 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 546 Atwood Street Longmont, Colorado, United States |
Coordinates: | 40.1689°N -105.0958°W |
Built: | 1886 |
Architect: | Frederick Albert Hale |
Architecture: | Italianate |
Added: | August 12, 1987 |
Refnum: | 87001285 |
Longmont College, also known as The Landmark, is a building in Longmont, Colorado that briefly housed the city's first college from 1886 to 1889.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The Presbyterian Synod of Colorado originally commissioned the design of a much larger building for the site to house what was to become Longmont Presbyterian College.[2] The south wing was built in 1886: a two-story brick building in the Italianate style.[3] Due to financial problems, this was the only wing completed, and the college closed after only three years, reopening as a preparatory school, Longmont Academy. The building later housed Longmont High School and a series of Catholic schools before being sold and subdivided into apartments during the post-World War II housing shortage.[2] [3]