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Olde Plumer College

Founded 1882

"That our daughters may be as cornerstones polished after similitude of a palace"

Rambling two-and three story brick building with bonded walls, pressed-metal-shingled hip and gabled roof and a complex accretive form

The two-story brick house that constitutes the core of the building was constructed in 1872 by Wesley Johnson. In 1880 the house was occupied by Robert Crockett. The house was converted into a Presbyterian-affiliated female seminary 1882 and the building was substantially enlarged over the following years. In 1887 the institution was known as Plumer Memorial Female College and offered courses in art, music, elocution, French, German, Latin, and calisthenics. Laura Shortt, a teacher at the college purchased the building in 1897 and with her sisters operated a college-preparatory boarding school at the location until 1929. During the Shortt's ownership the building was also operated as a boarding house for summer guests (Sources: Odom, "A Tour of Wytheville" ;mmm; historic properties data compiled by Kitty Grady; may; Wytheville: Illustrated Prospectus; Sanborn maps.) Source R.B. Moor Hs #2

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