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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
On the western outskirts of the town, at 13.4 m., are the buildings of DREW UNIVERSITY (L). In 1929 its theological seminary received a real-estate endowment of 35,000,000 from the $40,000,000 fortune of Manhattan's Wendel sisters. The institution was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church as a theological seminary in 1867, the centenary of American Methodism, on ground donated by Daniel Drew, stock-market speculator. The theological seminary now prepares men for the ministry and both men and women for teaching. Twenty buildings and two athletic fields are scattered across the 120-acre campus of flatland, oaks, and beeches, surrounded by a cut-stone fence. MEAD HALL, built as a private home in 1836, is a fine specimen of the late Southern Colonial type of architecture. The building stands behind a bronze equestrian STATUE OF FRANCIS ASBURY, first American Methodist bishop. Rose MEMORIAL LIBRARY, built in 1938 to blend architecturally with Mead Hall, houses many valuable collections, including one of ancient manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and the Osborn and Tyerman Collections of Methodist publications. BROTHERS COLLEGE, housed in a modified Georgian Colonial style building of red brick with limestone trim, is an undergraduate school of liberal arts, opened in 1928. Estates of the wealthy line the highway in the hills W. of Madison. At 13.9 m. (L) is the MRS. HARTLEY DODGE ESTATE (private), enclosed in a stone, brick and wire fence. A dog show, one of the largest in America, is held on Mrs. Dodge's estate annually in May. Nearly 4,000 dogs from all over the country are housed in red and white tents on the greensward ; as many as 40,000 visitors view the entries. The ESTATE OF HARTLEY DODGE is (R) opposite his wife's.
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