[2] The cottage has since been demolished and is now a burger stand at about 500 S White St., although a commemorative marker on the site is present.

[2] After holding classes at Ayer College for two years, it planned to relocate to Piedmont Mesa north of Pomona, but was instead offered the site of an unfinished hotel in Claremont, California, a few miles away.

The hotel building would eventually become Sumner Hall, the current location of the college's admissions office.

Like other Congregationalist-founded colleges such as Harvard, Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Bowdoin, Pomona received its own governing board, ensuring its independence.

Today, it is fully nonsectarian, and is widely considered the premier liberal arts college on the West Coast.