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39-607: The building was named after Judson Wade Leonard, the brother-in-law of Shaw's founder Henry Martin Tupper . Classes began in 1882 and the annual tuition was $ 60, a substantial sum at the time. It is a contributing part of the East Raleigh-South Park Historic District , listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. In 1994 it was designated a North Carolina Historic Landmark. Shaw University

78-618: A missionary to Africa , however the Civil War intervened. Shortly after being ordained as a minister, he enlisted in the Union Army . Though his education would have qualified him for a military commission , there were no openings in the officer corps, so he enlisted as a soldier. Tupper was assigned to the Army of the Potomac , Ninth Corps , under the command of Ambrose Burnside . He participated in

117-531: A Doctor of Medicine in 1911. In 1912 Pogue moved his family to Bedford Virginia where he opened an integrated pharmacy at 111 S Bridge Street. He served the community in a number of ways and saw patients in his office and home until his death March 6, 1956. 35°46′13″N 78°38′20″W  /  35.7702°N 78.6390°W  / 35.7702; -78.6390 Henry Martin Tupper Henry Martin Tupper (April 11, 1831 – November 12, 1893)

156-612: A classroom building until 1986 when a fire destroyed the roof. In 2000, a $ 3.6 million grant from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fund and corporate donations resulted in the building's restoration. The historic facility is now used for classes and administrative offices. In 2006 the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program installed a plaque to mark the location of Leonard Hall. The twin-turreted brick building

195-408: A kitchen with running water, a full bathroom on the second floor, coal burning heating stoves, and a telephone. He also installed a call bell system, with buttons in each room and an annunciator in the back hall. Pope began to see patients in the house during the 1920s and 1930s, when his health began to fail. The small area at the rear of the back hall, adjacent to the kitchen, was configured to include

234-548: A medical school until 1918, when financial problems arose from rising costs associated with implementing recommendations of the Flexner Report on Medical Education for curriculum, research, and medical equipment. During its 36-year history, the school graduated nearly 400 physicians, most of whom provided critical services to underserved populations throughout the South. After the medical school closed, Leonard Hall continued to serve as

273-683: A non-partisan ticket with Calvin E. Lightner . His home is now a registered landmark and museum. J.T. Williams practiced medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Charlotte and was twice elected to the Board of Aldermen . Williams was appointed an ambassador to Sierra Leone by President William McKinley , serving from 1898 to 1907. J.T. Williams Middle School in Charlotte is named after him. Class valedictorian Lawson Andrew Scruggs founded

312-459: A small hand sink and built-in cabinet for instruments . After Pope married Delia Haywood Phillips in 1907, the couple added a garage and wired the home for electricity. In the 1920s, the original front porch was removed, and the current sleeping porch constructed on brick piers. In the 1940s, the northern half of the first floor space below the porch was enclosed with brick, as it remains today. They eventually had two children, Evelyn and Ruth. After

351-557: Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, It was an official project of the Save America’s Treasures Program and the city of Raleigh took over management of it, offering tours for the first time in 2012. Since the early 19th century, the area where the Pope House is located has gone through many transformations. When the original governor’s mansion was built at the end of Fayetteville Street on

390-524: Is of the Romanesque Revival style. The two corner towers feature arched bay windows and a rear addition with a matching corbelled cornice was later added to the building. The architect of Leonard Hall is unknown, but many believe it was Gaston Alonzo Edwards , a Shaw faculty member and designer in 1910 of the Leonard Hospital. To save on construction costs, Shaw students made the bricks for

429-516: Is the oldest historically black college in the South and often called the "mother of African-American colleges in North Carolina", because its alumni founded other colleges. It is named after Elijah Shaw, an entrepreneur from Massachusetts who contributed financially for the establishment of the school. On March 31, 1886, it awarded the college's first medical degrees to six men. Leonard Medical Center

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468-507: The Battle of Fredericksburg . He was transferred to General Sherman 's Fifteenth Corps in time for the Vicksburg Campaign . He was injured at the Battle of Jackson . Though Tupper was not an officer, he frequently served as a chaplain , ministering to sick and injured soldiers, and organizing prayer meetings and bible studies among soldiers. While in the army, he became acquainted with

507-432: The Civil War . Donations from people such as Judson Wade Leonard and Jacob Estey assisted in developing the college's growing campus . Estey donated money for construction of Estey Hall , first in the nation built for the education of African-American women. In 1881, Leonard Hall began operating as the first four-year medical school in the country. Leonard Hall, Leonard Medical Center's first building, opened in 1882. It

546-673: The Old North State Medical Society , the nation's oldest association of black physicians. He also founded a tuberculosis sanatorium in Southern Pines that treated many people from Raleigh. Aaron McDuffie Moore , graduate of the 1888 class, became the first African-American physician in Durham . He co-founded the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company , the largest and oldest black-owned business in

585-661: The United States. Moore convinced philanthropist Washington Duke to build a hospital instead of a monument as a better way to honor black troops who fought for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Clinton Caldwell Boone , earned the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1910 at Leonard Hall. He had already spent years in the Congo as a missionary. Upon graduation in 1910 he was posted to

624-534: The area known as the Third Ward, which included the 500 block of South Wilmington Street. In 1901, Pope decided to build his house in this area. Pope’s neighbors included other prominent African Americans, including another doctor and a pharmacist . His home was located near his office on East Hargett Street , which at the time was the heart of the black business district. Pope installed the latest technology in his home, including combination gas and electric fixtures,

663-527: The building. Nearly every member of the first graduating class of 1886 went on to have a notable career and was deeply involved in civic life. M.T. Pope became a prominent physician in Raleigh and was also involved in local politics of the capital. During the time of racial segregation imposed disfranchisement , Pope was one of only seven African-American men in the city of Raleigh who managed to register to vote. He went on to run for mayor of Raleigh in 1919 on

702-578: The colonies in the American Revolutionary War . His paternal ancestry has been linked to a family of prominent Lutheran dissenters who left Germany and settled in England during the reign of Henry VIII . He was a distant relative of Martin Farquhar Tupper , an English poet of the 19th century. Clergyman Thomas Tupper, an ancestor of Henry Martin Tupper, emigrated from England to Barbados in

741-539: The country. When the institute moved into a new building in 1871, it was renamed as Shaw Collegiate Institute in honor of a major donor. Tupper served as the university's first president from its founding until his death in 1893. Henry Martin Tupper was born on April 11, 1831, to Earl and Permellia Norris Tupper and raised on a farm in Monson, Massachusetts . He was the eldest of nine children. His grandfather, Ezra Tupper, and great-grandfather, William Tupper, had both fought for

780-490: The deaths of their parents, Evelyn and Ruth maintained the family home, though they lived in Durham and Chapel Hill respectively. Although the Pope House remains in the neighborhood, the area around it has dramatically changed. Older homes and businesses were replaced with office buildings, parking lots and newer homes. The most evident change was the construction of the Raleigh Convention Center directly across

819-599: The early 17th century. He later helped found the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts . Neither of his parents were practicing Christians nor did Martin attend church as a child. He received little formal education until he turned eighteen, when he enrolled in Monson Academy . He converted to Christianity while at the Academy. In order to fund his continuing education, he took a job as a school teacher in New Jersey , where he

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858-658: The newly developing Republic of Liberia to represent the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention as a medical missionary Liberia. He helped to build a schoolhouse and hospital in the Congo, as well as a school in Liberia. Also became the President of the first church in Liberia, Providence Baptist Church, founded by Lott Carey in 1822. George Louis Alphonso Pogue graduated from the medical school at Leonard Hall with

897-458: The plight of African-American slaves . This inspired his later work. On January 25, 1864, he married Sarah Baker Leonard of Stafford , Connecticut . She later joined him in his work, helping teach freedwomen as he taught the men. They had two children, Elizabeth Caroline and Edward Leonard Tupper. Sarah's older brother Judson Wade Leonard, a successful businessman in woolen textiles, helped support Shaw University financially. The medical school

936-589: The plot, located at the corner of Blount and Cabarrus streets in Raleigh, he constructed a two-story timber building to serve as both a school and church. He named this the Raleigh Institute; it was the first permanent home what would develop as Shaw University. The Home Mission Society and the Freedman's Bureau jointly provided funding for the Institute. As the school grew, Tupper searched for more space. Nearby to

975-608: The rail network caused by the Civil War; they arrived in Raleigh on October 10. The Tuppers began working among the freedmen. He procured food and clothing from the Freedman's Bureau to help support the many homeless black men in Raleigh. On December 1, 1865, Tupper began teaching bible study classes to freedmen in the Guion Hotel (located where the North Carolina Museum of History is now located). This first bible class marks

1014-478: The school was renamed the Shaw Collegiate Institute. Tupper and his students and faculty moved into their new location in 1871. Expansion proceeded quickly, as the first men's dormitory opened in 1872, and the first women's dormitory, Estey Hall (named for another Northern benefactor, Jacob Estey of Brattleboro , Vermont ), opened in 1874. Under Tupper's leadership, the school became chartered by

1053-510: The site of the present Memorial Auditorium , it was thought that fashionable residences would be built nearby. Although a few substantial homes were constructed by white families, when Reverend Henry Martin Tupper moved Shaw University to the neighborhood in 1870, many new African-American residents drawn to Raleigh after the Civil War settled in the area. Pope attended Leonard Medical Center at Shaw University before beginning his medical practice. Black professionals began to build homes in

1092-423: The south was the estate of Paul Barringer , the patriarch of a prominent North Carolina political dynasty. When the land came up for sale, Martin Tupper raised $ 13,000 for its purchase, mostly from private donors solicited personally by Tupper. The largest single donor was Elijah Shaw, a resident of Wales, Massachusetts, who donated $ 5,000. In his honor, the first building on the new campus was named Shaw Hall, and

1131-519: The state as a university in 1875. It added a medical and pharmacy program ( Leonard Medical School ) in 1881, and a law program in 1888. Each of these programs were the first of their kind for African-American students. Note: Howard University , a historically black university , dates its law school to 1869, when a law department was established by John Mercer Langston . Along with two students, Nicholas Franklin Roberts and Edward Hart Lipscomb , Tupper

1170-533: The street from the house. Today, the house is in the shadows of skyscrapers that were built in the 1980s and 1990s. The Pope House was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999. The following month the trustees of the Pope Charitable Foundation decided to begin the process of turning the house into a museum. One month later, The Pope House Museum Foundation

1209-429: The traditional foundation date of Shaw University. He used the class as an opportunity to teach the freedmen to read and write, encouraging them to become Baptist ministers, and start their own congregations. In March 1866, Sarah Tupper began teaching freedwomen in similar classes. Having outgrown his temporary location at the Guion Hotel, Tupper purchased a plot of land, using $ 500 saved from his military service. On

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1248-558: Was baptised in a nearby Baptist church. Later he joined a congregation in Wales, Massachusetts , near his hometown of Monson. Tupper attended Amherst College and graduated in 1859. He received his divinity degree from Newton Theological Institute in 1862. While at school, he organized bible studies for African-American youth. He also worked as a missionary among recent immigrants in Boston as part of his training. He had planned to serve as

1287-580: Was an American Baptist minister who founded Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina . Beginning with bible and literacy classes in December 1865, it was the second university established for African Americans following the end of the civil war, and the oldest historically black college and university (HBCU) in the Southern United States , as well as one of the oldest co-educational universities in

1326-613: Was an editor of the quarterly journal, African Expositor , founded in 1878. Tupper's role as the founder of the first university dedicated to educating freedmen attracted opposition. During the Reconstruction era, his home was burned to the ground by the Ku Klux Klan . He and his wife fled and hid in a nearby cornfield. In 1870 the trustees of the local Second Baptist Church of Raleigh sued Tupper on charges of defrauding its members in relation to his fundraising for Shaw College. The suit

1365-654: Was incorporated as a non-profit organization . The extensive family papers were sorted and catalogued, and donated to the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 2011 due to financial concerns, the Pope House Museum approached the city of Raleigh about purchasing the Pope House Museum to ensure its survival. Since the purchase, the Pope House Museum has been managed by Raleigh Parks and Recreation which has opened

1404-668: Was named after Judson Wade Leonard, Sarah Tupper's brother, who donated money to help construct the school. Leonard Hall held classrooms. A 34-bed medical dormitory and a 25-bed hospital were constructed next to it, the latter in 1910. The medical school complex was used to train Christian physicians serving African Americans. Prominent faculty members at the medical school included Kemp B. Battle Jr., son of President Kemp P. Battle of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; and Wisconsin I. Royster, great-uncle of Wall Street Journal editor Vermont C. Royster . Leonard Hall served as

1443-577: Was named for him. After the Civil War, Tupper was commissioned by the Home Mission Society to act as a missionary to freed slaves in the American South . Discharged from the Union Army on July 14, 1865, he and his wife Sarah departed for Raleigh , North Carolina , on October 1 to begin his work. Traveling via train through Portsmouth , Virginia , they had delays due to extensive damage to

1482-483: Was one of fourteen medical schools founded in the late 19th century for the education of African-Americans. Describing the history of the building, then-President Talbert O. Shaw said, "For Shaw University and the black community , it stands out as one of the bastions of education for our people. We are very proud of it." In 1865, the university was founded by Rev. Henry Martin Tupper and his wife Sarah Leonard Tupper, American Baptists , to educate freedmen following

1521-468: Was settled in his favor in 1875. Tupper died on November 12, 1893, following a prolonged illness. His funeral was reportedly one of the most attended in the history of Raleigh to that time. Tupper was buried on the campus in front of Shaw Hall. Pope House Museum The Pope House Museum , built in 1901, is a restored home once owned by Dr. Manassa Thomas Pope , a prominent African-American citizen of Raleigh, North Carolina . The Pope House

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