The former Ogontz School for Girls in Abington was recently featured in Dirt.com, a real estate news site which covers high-profile transactions.

The article, titled “Priced at $1.7 Million, a Pennsylvania Mansion Was Once Part of Prestigious Girls’ School”, gives an overview of the estate’s early-1900s beginnings until the school’s headmistress donated it to Penn State University in 1950.

According to Dirt.com, the headmistress, Miss Abby Sutherland, issued a challenge before handing over the keys: “Young people of Penn State, Ogontz Center, the devotion of a century of zealous effort, we pass on to you. Care for this place! Love it! Guard here the spirit of the best in your dreams of education!”

For the full article, you can click here. You can also read Penn State University Libraries’ historical coverage here, and for an in-depth take on the adoption of the property, you can read the ebook “Penn State Abington and the Ogontz School” by Frank D. Quattron and Dr. Karen Wiley Sandler.

For the property’s listing, you can click here.

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Photo courtesy of BHHS Fox & Roach, Penn State University Libraries