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Old Main
Old Main
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location:	21st St. and Upland Ave., Upland, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	39°51′21″N 75°22′17″W / 39.85583°N 75.37139°WCoordinates: 39°51′21″N 75°22′17″W / 39.85583°N 75.37139°W
Area:	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built/Founded:	1857
Architectural style(s):	Italianate
Governing body:	Private
Added to NRHP:	June 18, 1973
NRHP Reference#:	73001626

The Crozer Theological Seminary was a multi-denominational religious institution located in Upland, Pennsylvania. The school, which occupied the former Crozer Hospital (now the Crozer-Chester Medical Center), mostly served as an American Baptist Church school, training seminarians for the entry into the Baptist ministry. Henry Clay Vedder was employed there from 1894 onwards.

The Seminary began as a normal school constructed by wealthy textile manufacturer John Price Crozer.^[2] The building was used as a hospital during the American Civil War, and after Crozer's death in 1866, his family endowed it and his son recruited faculty.^[3]

The most famous student of Crozer Seminary was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. He enrolled on September 14, 1948 and graduated on May 8, 1951 with a Bachelor of Divinity degree.^[4]

Another Crozer student was Dr. Monroe E. Dodd, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana from 1912-1950, founder of the Dodd College for Girls, and a pioneer radio minister.

In 1970 the school moved to Rochester, New York, in a merger that formed the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School,^[5] and the old seminary building is now a medical office on the grounds of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center.

**Presidents**
Name	Tenure
Harry G. Weston	1869 – 1909
Milton G. Evans	1909 – 1934
James H. Franklin	1934 – 1944
Edwin E. Aubrey	1944 – 1949
Sankey Lee Blanton	1950 – 1962
Ronald V. Wells	1962 – 1970

[edit] References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
^ Ashmead, Henry Graham (1914), "John P. Crozer", History of the Delaware County National Bank : with biographical notes of its officers, Chester, Pennsylvania: Press of the Chester Times, p. 130, OCLC 245975812, http://www.oldchesterpa.com/biographies/crozer_john_price_1.htm, retrieved 2009-10-06
^ Brackney, William H. (2004), A genetic history of Baptist thought : with special reference to Baptists in Britain and North America, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, p. 369, OCLC 260116581, http://books.google.com/books?id=JI_8p6y01xIC&pg=PA369, retrieved 2009-10-06
^ King, Martin Luther; Carson, Clayborne (1998), The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., New York, New York: Warner Books, p. 62, OCLC 39399036, http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/the_autobiography_of_martin_luther_king_jr_contents/, retrieved 2009-10-06
^ "BAPTIST SEMINARY PLANS TO MERGE; Crozer Theological to Join With School in Rochester", New York Times: 36, 1970-05-17, ISSN 0362-4331, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10717FB395417768FDDAE0994DD405B808BF1D3, retrieved 2009-10-06

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[1] Ashmead, Henry Graham (1914), "John P. Crozer", History of the Delaware County National Bank : with biographical notes of its officers, Chester, Pennsylvania: Press of the Chester Times, p. 130, OCLC 245975812, http://www.oldchesterpa.com/biographies/crozer_john_price_1.htm, retrieved 2009-10-06

[2] Brackney, William H. (2004), A genetic history of Baptist thought : with special reference to Baptists in Britain and North America, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, p. 369, OCLC 260116581, http://books.google.com/books?id=JI_8p6y01xIC&pg=PA369, retrieved 2009-10-06

[3] King, Martin Luther; Carson, Clayborne (1998), The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., New York, New York: Warner Books, p. 62, OCLC 39399036, http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/the_autobiography_of_martin_luther_king_jr_contents/, retrieved 2009-10-06

[4] "BAPTIST SEMINARY PLANS TO MERGE; Crozer Theological to Join With School in Rochester", New York Times: 36, 1970-05-17, ISSN 0362-4331, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10717FB395417768FDDAE0994DD405B808BF1D3, retrieved 2009-10-06

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