Newcomb College

…benefactor, Josephine Louise Newcomb, established H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for Women as a coordinate college. In 1894 Tulane moved from its original downtown location to its campus uptown. An engineering school was added in 1894, an architecture department in 1912, a business school in 1914, and the medical centre…

Newcomb College opened in September 1887 and proved a success as the nation’s first self-sufficient women’s college connected with a men’s college. Over the next several years Newcomb’s gifts to the college totaled about $1 million. Upon her death in 1901, her will, with a…