Manhattanville College, Purchase

Manhattanville College is a private college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 at 412 Houston Street in lower Manhattan, it was known initially as Academy of the Sacred Heart, then later as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart after 1847. In 1917, the academy received a charter from the Regents of the State of New York to raise the school officially to a collegiate level granting degrees as the College of the Sacred Heart. The school moved to its current location in the hamlet of Purchase, New York, in 1952, a suburb north of New York City. Purchase is inside the town and village of Harrison in Westchester County. ()