https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=DUBUQUE_FEMALE_COLLEGEDUBUQUE FEMALE COLLEGE - Revision history2026-04-12T02:50:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.1https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=DUBUQUE_FEMALE_COLLEGE&diff=183620&oldid=prevRandylyon at 19:12, 18 January 20252025-01-18T19:12:17Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The building the City erected by 1854 was a forty-room Byzantine-style architectural curiosity with turrets and onion-shaped domes. The school contained forty large rooms with ceilings nearly twice the height of a modern room. Rules at the college were strict. Girls were to dress in drab-colored clothes with at least seven layers of petticoats. They were further instructed not to leave anything in the school corridors that might damage their character and to avoid rustling their skirts. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:DFC.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Dubuque Female College and later Our Lady of Lourdes]] </ins>The building the City erected by 1854 was a forty-room Byzantine-style architectural curiosity with turrets and onion-shaped domes. The school contained forty large rooms with ceilings nearly twice the height of a modern room. Rules at the college were strict. Girls were to dress in drab-colored clothes with at least seven layers of petticoats. They were further instructed not to leave anything in the school corridors that might damage their character and to avoid rustling their skirts. </div></td></tr>
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