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It thus appears that although the foundations, walls, roofing, and plastering were all completed within a year, almost another year elapsed before the final touches were given to the fabric. This may have been due to delays in securing the glass, hardware, carvings, etc., from England, or to the exhaustion of the original building fund, and a further application to Mrs. Holden. for the needful wherewithal. The latter is the more probable, since the tradition runs that she originally expressed surprise that so small a sum as £400 should be considered sufficient. When at last it was finished, however, the College boasted a building the like of which had never been seen in the vicinity before.

Its style was neither the pseudo-Dutch of the first