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Lafayette College occupies College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania, located in the Lehigh Valley. It is about 70 mi (110 km) west of New York City and 60 mi (97 km) north of Philadelphia. Its 340-acre campus houses 69 buildings, comprising approximately 1.76 million square feet. This includes a 230-acre athletic campus. [40]
The building is a New York City Landmark, designated in 1965. [20] It was one of the first buildings to be recognized as such by the newly formed Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City. [21] In 2009, The Public began its "Going Public" campaign to raise funds for a major renovation of the historic building.
Marquis de Lafayette. The Lafayette Welcoming Parade of 1824 was a parade held in New York City on August 16, 1824, to welcome the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette on the occasion of his visit to the United States for a sixteen-month tour. It has been described as the first triumphal parade in New York history.
Ralph Cooper Hutchison, class of 1918, president of Washington & Jefferson College, 1931–45, and Lafayette College, 1945–57. Frank Reed Horton, class of 1926, founder of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. Nils Yngve Wessell, class of 1934, president of Tufts University, 1953–66.
The Lafayette College campus is a 110-acre suburban area located on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Lafayette College also owns and maintains a 230-acre athletic complex, the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. The school is roughly 70 mi (110 km) west of New York City and 60 mi (97 km) north of Philadelphia.
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Part of. Union Square. NRHP reference No. 97001678 [1] Added to NRHP. December 9, 1997 [2] Marquis de Lafayette is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette by artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, located at Union Square Park in Manhattan, New York.
01000506 [1] Added to NRHP. May 21, 2001. The Zeta Psi Fraternity House at Lafayette College is a historic house located on the campus of Lafayette College in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The Tau Chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity built the house between 1909 and 1910. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.