Upsala College (former) (East Orange, New Jersey)

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This defunct college was closed in 1995 and left to rot for 11 years. It's demolition was featured in a segment on Dirty Jobs.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsala_College
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Coordinates:   40°46'33"N   74°12'29"W

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  • The school was founded on the initiative of the Swedish-American Augustana Synod and immigrant Swedes, and received its name partly in reference to the historic University of Uppsala in Sweden and partly in memory of the Meeting of Uppsala, which had taken place in 1593 – exactly 300 years before the founding of the college – establishing Lutheran Orthodoxy in the country after the attempts of King John III to reintroduce Roman-Catholic liturgy. (Upsala is an archaic spelling variation of Uppsala, replaced in the early part of the 20th century by the version with two P:s, except in some proper nouns which have retained the old spelling.) The college originally opened in Brooklyn, New York City, New York and later moved to Kenilworth, New Jersey in 1898 before settling in East Orange in 1924. The campus was sold to the East Orange Board of Education, who built a high school on the site's Eastern half and sold the Western portion to the City of East Orange
  • The physical structures are gone but the spirit and memories are here forever
  • Does anyone remember Mary Ellen Wilson. I think she graduated from Upsala in 1959
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