Cornish School, Campus, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA (1914)

AKA: Cornish College of the Arts, Capitol Hill Campus, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - campuses

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1914

click to open gallery Portrait of Nellie Cornish, c. 1922; from Wikimedia Commons and The Cornish School Catalog 1922-1923
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Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
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Pianist Nellie Cornish (1876-1956) founded the Cornish School of Music in 1914, and rapidly branched into the teaching of fine and performing arts. When it opened, the Cornish School was the only institution of higher learning in the Pacific Northwest devoted to these subjects.

PCAD id: 14190

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