About Manhattanville College

Manhattanville College is a private researcher offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 at 412 Houston Street in belittle Manhattan, it was known initially as “Academy of the Sacred Heart”, then far ahead as “Manhattanville College” after 1847. In 1917, the academy received a charter from the Regents of the State of New York to raise the moot officially to a collegiate level granting degrees as the “College of the Sacred Heart”. The college moved to its current location supplementary north, in a suburb greater than New York City in Purchase, New York, in 1952. It is near the hamlet of Harrison in Westchester County.

Approximately 1,600 undergraduate and 900 graduate students attend Manhattanville, with students coming from 45+ countries and 35+ American states.

The architectural and administrative centerpiece of the Manhattanville campus is Reid Hall (1864) which was named after Whitelaw Reid, publisher and owner of the New-York Tribune, one of the leading newspapers in the nation for a century. On either side of Reid Hall stand academic buildings on one side and upon the other address halls in the region of a central quad designed by the landscaping / architect Frederick Law Olmsted, also the designer of New York’s landmark Central Park in the 1850s and 1860s. The Manhattanville community regards the central quad and buildings as representing the academic vision of the college’s duty to integrated learning and centered strengths. Other historic buildings add together the Lady Chapel, the President’s Cottage known as the Barbara Debs House, the antiquated Stables, and Water Tower.

Purchase is a hamlet in the town and village of Harrison, in Westchester County, New York. One myth explains that its read out is derived from Harrison’s purchase, where John Harrison was to be fixed as much land as he could ride in one day. Purchase is home to State University of New York at Purchase and Manhattanville College.