Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments) Entry
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This image shows the front entrance of the The Colonial, which includes many key characteristics of Federal architecture. Characteristics, such as the semi-circle fanlight and door surround, giving the apartment complex a stately appearance that preserves the historical legacy that the buildings holds.
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Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments)
Built in the 1820s, this large Federal style complex would become Lydia English’s Female Seminary, a school for “fashionable” women. In 1861, during the Civil War, it would be commandeered and converted into a hospital, and shortly thereafter, in…