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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: June 26, 2021
Caption: Old Main, Iowa Wesleyan University
Additional Description: (marker visible just to the left of front entrance) The second floor music classroom is the location of the founding of the P.E.O. Sisterhood on January 21, 1869. The building opened for classes in the fall of 1855. Old Main is the heart of campus today and is the oldest collegiate classroom facility, built for that sole purpose and still in use, west of the Mississippi River.
Submitted: July 23, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p598945
File Size: 4.103 Megabytes

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