Synodical College - Fulton, MO
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 51.361 W 091° 56.746
15S E 591473 N 4301326
Two main building remain from this former school.
Waymark Code: WMWE7M
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2017
Views: 2
County of school: Callaway County
Location of site: E. 10th St. & West Ave., Fulton
"It was known as the Fulton Female Academy when it was founded by Rev. William W. Robertson. It came after the official auspices of the Presbyterian Church after 1871, and became a college in 1873." ~ Synodical College
101 East 1Oth Street (C)
Original-Historic owner or Name: Synodical College/Seminole Apartments;
Construction Date: c. 1900-1930;
Property type-style: Tudor Revival;
Architect-Builder: unknown;
Outbuilding: N/A
This large L-shaped apartment building began its life as a multipurpose institutional building
with ltalianate details. After Synodical College closed in 1928, the building was expanded
and substantially remodeled. The two-story building has a steeply pitched hipped roof
covered in clay tile. The main entrance has a pavilioned stone doorway with battlements
and arch door surround molded belt course cutting the door area in half. Other Tudor
Revival features include half timbering and stucco in the gable ends, stone accents,
projecting oriel windows, and large chimneys." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
103 East 1Oth Street (C)
Original-Historic owner or Name: Synodical College Dormitory-Seminole Apartments;
Construction Date: 1913;
Property type-Style: N/A; ArchitecVBuilder: unknown;
Outbuilding:
N/A
This three story apartment building began its life as East Hall, and dormitory and dining
room for Synodical College. The large brick building has a hipped roof with projecting bays
at the east and west ends of the facade. The facade is symmetrical with a central entrance
flanked by evenly spaced windows. Between the projecting bays is a multi-story porch with
prick piers on the first floor and Tuscan columns on the second.
This was East Hall (dormitory and dining room) of Synodical College. Synodical College
and Conservatory of Music for Young Ladies was a part of the Presbyterian Church Synod
from 1873-1 928. The first building for the school was built in 1873. The campus later had
three main buildings, two of which survive as the Seminole Apartments, named after the
Synodical school yearbook, "The Seminole". A picket fence surrounded the well-kept
campus and a gazebo and lawn tennis court was a part of the landscape. A rivalry existed
between Synodical College and William Woods College (also a school for girls). Sunday
mornings would find a parade of girls on each side of Court Street making their way to
church, the William Woods girls on the west side and Synodical girls on the east." ~ NRHP Nomination Form