Shelton College was a private, Christian , liberal arts college that was located in Cape May , New Jersey . It was involved in a landmark case requiring religious schools to acquire a state license to grant academic degrees.
11-594: The college motto was "Training Christian Warriors." Shelton College was founded by Don Odell Shelton in 1907 as the National Bible Institute of New York City, and it was incorporated in 1908. The Union Missionary Training Institute of Brooklyn, founded by Lucy D. Osborn in 1885, merged with the National Bible Institute in 1916. From 1925 to 1952 the National Bible Institute's headquarters were located at 340 West 55th Street in New York City and
22-553: A home for the aged. Again the architectural firm Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith were hired to alter the building to house 177 elderly men and women. On March 20, 1955 Cardinal Francis Spellman blessed and dedicated the new $ 2,250,000 Josephine Baird Home for the Aged, operated by the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm . The facility was closed in 1972 when it could no longer be brought up to building codes. In
33-460: Is an historic " pre-war " Venetian-Gothic building at 340 West 55th Street between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City . It was built in 1925 to serve as a school and dormitory for The National Bible Institute. Today it is a 56 - unit luxury co-op building known as The Sherwood. The Sherwood was built in 1925 originally constructed as
44-551: The New York State Board of Regents to change the institutions name to Shelton College in honor of its founder, Don O. Shelton and to grant the degree of Bachelor of Arts. With its growing activities, Shelton College sold the building in 1952 and moved to Ringwood, New Jersey . In 1952 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York purchased the building with plans to modernize it for use as
55-673: The Supreme Court of New Jersey forbade Shelton from granting degrees without a state license. The school became a certificate granting institution until it closed in 1992. In 2014, the roof collapsed and the building was demolished. Shelton College publishes a theological journal, The Bible Today . This article about a university or college in New Jersey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Bible Institute School and Dormitory (New York City) The National Bible Institute School and Dormitory
66-529: The 1975, the Hare Krishnas purchased the building for $ 1,000,000 and called 340 West 55th their "Skyscraper temple", amenities included a theater, gift shop, museum, soup kitchen and a hotel, with hundreds of followers living communally in the upper floors. In 1977, Swami Prabhupada died, and soon thereafter, the Krishnas were troubled with financial difficulties. In 1981 local leadership decided to sell
77-488: The Manhattan property. In 1982, the building was transformed into co-op apartments, as it is known today. The Sherwood blends stone, brick and Venetian-style balconies to make it a unique gem on this quiet block. Its relatively simple architecture is rock-solid secure, a reassuring beacon of civilized urban architecture. Its great gray stone base is only one-and-a-half stories high. The George Washington Stone Company built
88-426: The National Bible Institute's new headquarters, by the prestigious architects McKenzie, Voorhees and Gmelin . The building opened on October 13, 1925, at a cost of $ 1,350,000. with accommodations for 240 resident pupils. The original structure consisted of a library, laboratory, classrooms, lecture hall, dining room, and an auditorium on the main floor. In May 1950, the National Bible Institute received permission from
99-487: The corner quoins on the western end of the second floor are somewhat muted by the seven columned curved rock balconies beneath the windows. The building's west wing has a Venetian-style loggia with seven slender arches on the 9th floor beneath a setback terrace. The naturalistic, low relief ornament motifs that run along its gray stone base was produced by the architectural sculptors Ulysses Ricci and John De Cesare. Fruits, animals and twisting vines can be discerned, as well as
110-437: The foundation and base. Detailed carving rest atop the two columns at its canopied entrance with a scalloped band-course above its second floor which is not highlighted by its color, The red tiles of a mid-level setback on the eastern portion of the façade are not pronounced but echo the band-course one floor below. Its angled west wing is sophisticated and subtle and scarcely noticeable. The bright pink stone window surrounds and
121-707: Was known as the National Bible Institute School and Dormitory . Carl McIntire was instrumental in the leadership of the college from the early 1940s until it closed in 1991. The National Bible Institute was renamed as Shelton College in 1950. The college moved to a campus in Ringwood, New Jersey , in 1953, then to Cape May, New Jersey in 1963. In 1971 the college moved to Cape Canaveral , Florida , and then back to Cape May in 1979. In September 1973, McIntire became Chancellor. In New Jersey Board of Higher Education v. Shelton College ,
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