Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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Judson College
Hendersonbville, Henderson County, North Carolina

Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive DATA District No. 12

Historic American Buildings Survey, Prepared at Headquarters Office for M.R. March, District Officer.

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Judson College, at the corner of Third Avenue and Flemming Street, was started in 1859 by a group who planned to open it as a women's college. Before it was completed, the War between the States broke out and th eproject was temporarily abanded. Some work, however, was accomplished during the war by the women of Hendersonville, who quarried much of the granite for the structure and who out and placed the large columns in front.

It was opened about 1972 as the Western North Carolina Female College, but later became co-educational and was known as Judson Colledge (1875). In the following years it was used as a preparatory school unit as the Hendersonville grade school

In 1915 it was bought by Dr. Guy E. Dixon, the present owner, for the purpose of establishing a sanitarium, which is its present use.

Dr. Dixon has made several interior changes, cutting up the larger rooms into smaller bedrooms and adding a small wing at the rear.

The strucutre is a three story one of granite with a pitch roof. The interior trim is of woods of different fruit trees, the stairs of cherry, and the doors and mouldings of apple, cherry, poor, etc. IRef. Dr. Guy E. Dixon, Hendersonville, NC)
Author: Stewart Rogers.

Histori American Buildings Survey Card

Supplemental Pages
State: North Carolina; County: Henderson; Town: Hendersonville (3rd Ave.W & Flemming St.); Monument: Western North Carolina Female College, Judson College, Dixon's Sanitarium
Index Number: VC: 45-HENVI-1
History: Work begun in 1859 - delayed by war between the states, opened as college 1872. Present owner, Dr. Guy E. Dixon who uses it as a sanitarium.
Description: Granite, pitch roof, 3 story, inside chimneys.
References: (blank)
Additonal Notes: The granite for the building was quarried near Hendersonville by women during the war period, and the large columns in front were hewn by them and out in place.
Author of Card: Stewart Rogers, May 1, 1934.
(Source: The Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record)