Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & Clark College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded as the Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867 in the town of Albany, 65 miles south of Portland by Willamette Valley Presbyterian pioneers, and relocated to Portland in 1938. The College has been coeducational since the first class, which graduated in 1873.

In 1942 the College trustees acquired the Lloyd Frank (of the historic Portland department store Meier & Frank) "Fir Acres" estate in Southwest Portland, and adopted the name Lewis & Clark College as a "symbol of the pioneering spirit that had made and maintained the College." Today, the three schools of the College and their supporting offices occupy a campus of 137 acres (554,000 mē), centered on the Frank estate on Palatine Hill in the Collins View neighborhood of Southwest Portland....