Mount Pleasant Classical Institute

Cardella, Liberato

This institution offered boys a classical education and was a well-known school throughout the Connecticut Valley and beyond in the 1830s. The school closed around 1836 and remained empty for awhile. The wings were removed to other areas of town. One became a tenement on North Pleasant Street known as the "Bee Hive." Other sections were removed to Northampton Road. John A. Nash opened a school in the remaining central part of the building in 1846 (Carpenter & Morehouse 271).

The illustrator, Liberato Cardella was listed as instructor in Italian, music, and drawing at the Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute, Amherst, Mass. in May 1831. Cf. Groce and Wallace. The New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America (New Haven, 1957), p. 108.

Circa 1840

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5.25 x 9 in.

Cardella, Liberato, "Mount Pleasant Classical Institute," in Digital Amherst, Item #750, http://www.digitalamherst.org/items/show/750 (accessed September 6, 2010).

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