The Historical
HAGERMAN PROPERTY
The Hagerman was constructed circa 1900 to serve as the dormitory for Campbell-Hagerman College—a private women’s college founded in 1903. The campus consisted of three large buildings on what was at that time sprawling farmland at the edge of town. The buildings pictured above served as the administrative building (left), the classrooms (center), and the dormitory (right). A publication in 1904 described the college and campus as follows:
"The Campbell-Hagerman College was founded in 1903 at Lexington, Ky. It is a flourishing young institution, having opened its first year with over 200 pupils, over one hundred of whom are boarders, coming from fifteen states of the Union. Has a faculty of sixteen members. Its buildings are large, modern in architecture, superb in their arrangements for health and comfort, and doubtless the equal of any college for women in the South."
B. C. HAGERMAN
MRS. B. C. HAGERMAN
Campbell–Hagerman College was founded by Barton C Hagerman. For the design of the dormitory, Mr. Hagerman engaged Herman L. Rowe, who had also designed Lexington’s Carnegie library in the Gratz Park Historic District, and served as the the supervising architect for the Lexington Opera House. The dormitory was named Argyle Hall. The women resided on the first, second, third and fourth floors, while the basement held the kitchen and cafeteria where the women enjoyed meals and studied.
Marjorie Henderson, Sally Beatty, Fanny Van Zandt, Corinne Errett, Mary Hill and Beulah Johnson on The Steps of The Hagerman
