Eastman’s National Business College.,
Life Span:
Location: Metropolitan Hall, First Methodist Episcopal Church,
Archiect: TBD
Chicago Tribune, September 22, 1866
Eastman Business College.
The fall session of the Eastman Business College will open on Monday, the first of October. Since the close of the last season important changes have taken place in the College which will afford superior facilities in extending the usefulness of the institution—better accommodations, a larger number of rooms and offices, and these fitted up in an elegant manner.
Since the fire which partially destroyed the Metropolitan Block, and interrupted to some extent the work of the College, Mr. Eastman has entirely refitted the large hall, and has taken in—with the exception of a few rooms—the whole building above the first floor. Every apartment has been remodeled and fitted up with desks and other necessary articles of furniture for the use of the professors and students. In addition to that the Eastman Business College, as is well known, has three large suites of rooms in adjacent buildings, thus forming a system of education which for comprehensiveness and completeness does not admit of being excelled.
It is now fourteen months since Professor Eastman came from New York, where for years he had conducted a flourishing institution, and held out to the people of Chicago and the Northwest an opportunity of obtaining a sound and thorough business education. How well that opportunity has been improved in this city we may judge from the fact that within three weeks after the college opened it numbered a thousand students; and how well its pledges have been sustained may be inferred from the fact that not only has the College maintained that enormous number of students, but they are increasing so constantly that large additions are required to accommodate the crowds who flock hither to obtain a practical insight into the system of business education acquired in the Eastman College.
The grand reunion of the graduates, societies and students of the Eastman Business College, will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, the 17th and 18th of October, at Crosby’s Opera House, and at the Hall. P. T. Barnum, Esq., of New York, will deliver the first of the series lectures for the season.
A Strangers’ and Tourists’ Guide to the City of Chicago, 1866
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