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In 1841, a Catholic boarding school was established in a three-storey house, becoming a college for undergraduates and postgraduates in 1917. Founded in Manhattan, New York City, it has been in Purchase, a village in nearby Westchester County, since 1952, turning coeducational in 1971.
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