Asheville Female College

[2] The school had its first quarters on the corner of Patton Avenue and Church Street in Asheville, North Carolina.

Anson W. Cummings became president of the college and successfully offset the scholarship funding by increasing charges for the music and art departments.

The personnel and equipment for teaching music, art in various forms, elocution, modern languages, physical culture, etc., were of a high order.

On these accounts, together with the unparalleled climate of Asheville, women from twenty-three states, many of them very remote, sought admittance to the college.

In the first fifty-two years of its history it had matriculated more than eight thousand pupils, most of whom went on to lend the skills of an educated and accomplished womanhood to the homes and circles of which they became a part.