Mount Pleasant Classical Institute
Mount Pleasant Classical Institute, was a boarding school for boys in Amherst, Massachusetts. It operated for five years from 1827-1832, and served ages 4-16. It was founded by Amherst College graduates Chauncey Colton and Francis Fellowes.[1] [2]
Abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher attended the school beginning in 1847. Yearly tuition was over $250, which was more than that of the local Amherst Academy.[3]
After the school was closed, the building was partly dismantled and moved to other locations within Amherst. One wing, which became known as the “Bee Hive”, was turned into a tenement house which housed a significant proportion of Amherst’s African-American population.[4]
References
- ^ http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma61.html
- ^ https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:pr76g3586
- ^ Applegate, Debby (2007). The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher (1st ed.). Doubleday. p. 61. ISBN 9780307424006.
- ^ http://www.amhersthistoric.org/items/show/18?tour=2&index=6
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