Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Campus== In the wake of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the seminary suspended classes for several years.<ref>John A. Broadus, ''Memoir of James P. Boyce'', p. 239.</ref> With the financial help of several wealthy [[Baptists]], including [[John D. Rockefeller]] and a group of [[Kentucky]] business leaders who promised to underwrite the construction of a new campus,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID720054_CIID1963858,00.html |title=New York Hall β SBTS |publisher=Archives.sbts.edu |date=February 24, 2005 |access-date=April 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042445/http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID720054_CIID1963858,00.html |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID720054_CIID1963952,00.html |title=Norton Hall (1893) β SBTS |publisher=Archives.sbts.edu |date=February 24, 2005 |access-date=April 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042610/http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID720054_CIID1963952,00.html |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> the seminary relocated to Fifth Street and [[U.S. Route 150|Broadway]] in downtown [[Louisville, Kentucky]], in 1877. In 1926, during the administration of Southern president [[Edgar Young Mullins|Edgar Y. Mullins]], the seminary occupied "[[The Beeches (Louisville, Kentucky)|The Beeches]]", a {{convert|100|acre|km2|adj=on}} suburban campus east of the city center<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID720054_CIID1965894,00.html |title=Norton Hall (1926) β SBTS |publisher=Archives.sbts.edu |date=February 28, 2005 |access-date=April 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042657/http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID720054_CIID1965894,00.html |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> designed by the [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] firm. The campus now contains 10 academic and residential buildings in [[Georgian architecture]] and three housing villages for married students. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page