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     COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY     GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY     GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY     HOLLINS UNIVERSITY     JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY     LIBERTY UNIVERSITY     LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY     LYNCHBURG COLLEGE     MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY     MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE     PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY     RADFORD UNIVERSITY     RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE     SHEPHERD COLLEGE     SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE     UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY     UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND     UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND     UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA     VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY     VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE     VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY     WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY     WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY      
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY (Click on an image to see the actual notecard size)
Charles L. Cocke Memorial Building
Roanoke, Virginia
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Now used for administrative offices, the Charles L. Cocke Memorial Building served as a library from 1908 to 1955. The seven-year fundraising drive for the building began shortly after Cocke’s death in 1901. The design by architects Frye and Chesterman featured an Ionic portico and the Georgian proportions and trim then generally considered colonial. Covered colonnades were added to give the building breadth within a year of its completion.

In 1852, ten years after its establishment, the coeducational Valley Union Seminary was transformed into the first women’s college in Virginia and one of the first in the nation. It was renamed for benefactors John and Ann Halsey Hollins in 1855. Hollins Institute became Hollins College in 1911 and Hollins University in 1998.

Properly known as the founder of Hollins, 24-year-old Charles Lewis Cocke arrived in 1844 to head the seminary. While still in his teens, Cocke had written of his ambition to dedicate himself to the “higher education of women in the South.” At a time when prevailing thought ran counter to that notion, Cocke persisted. “This school recognizes the principle that young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men,” wrote Cocke in 1857. Today, Hollins University offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and community outreach initiatives.

Text © 1999 Terry White, Drawing © 1999 Bill Harrah.

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