The curriculum was based on physical education, sciences, and classical studies[1] Rock Hill College was founded in 1824 as Rock Hill Academy and purchased three decades later in 1857 by the Roman Catholic male religious / education order of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (known as the Christian Brothers); Rock Hill College is sometimes referred in older publications as the Christian Brothers College.
Construction of the four-story structure with 18 inches thick-walled walls of native local rubble stone building for Rock Hill was completed during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
[4] In 1866, Brother Azarias (Patrick Francis Mullany) was called to be a professor of mathematics and literature at Rock Hill College.
[8] The school merged with the nearby Calvert Hall College, founded 1845 and currently a Roman Catholic educational institution and with an all-boys student body and a high school / secondary school, It was then located 15 miles northeast in Downtown Baltimore at southwest corner of Cathedral and West Mulberry Streets (current site of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore for their Archdiocesan Building / Catholic Center and opposite the historic old Baltimore Cathedral / Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of 1826.
In 1960, Calvert Hall (run also by the religious order of Christian Brothers), relocated to LaSalle Drive in Towson, Maryland of north-central Baltimore County.