Pine Manor College

Pine Manor College is a private, liberal arts college located in Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and currently serves almost 500 students, 75% of whom live on the 60acre campus.PMC was rated the nation's most racially diverse liberal arts college by U.S. News and World Reports. Pine Manor alumnae represent 60 countries and all 50 U.S. states.HistoryThe college was founded in 1911 as Pine Manor Junior College by Helen Temple Cooke, as part of the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It was a women-only institution at a time when even wealthy women were generally denied access to higher education.Author and educator Ella Lyman Cabot taught at PMJC in its early days. Pioneering female architect Eleanor Manning O'Connor taught at PMJC in the 1930s; educator Mary Nourse taught history there in 1933–1934.Frederick Carlos Ferry, Jr. served as Pine Manor's president from 1956 to 1974. The school's Ferry Administration Building is named after him.In 1965 the school moved to a 78acre estate in Chestnut Hill. The estate, then known as Roughwood, was the residence of Ernest B. Dane, at that time president of the Brookline Savings and Trust. Many of the school's buildings are original to the estate and have been renovated to accommodate the college.