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Tualatin Academy in 1974. The downstairs of the building houses the Price Memorial Chapel and meeting space. It is the oldest college building in the state and was still in use as a museum and chapel in 2017.
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Academy continued alongside the university until it was closed in 1914, at a time when many private high schools disappeared with the growth of public schools.
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was hired to teach at the school the first year. In 1848, Presbyterians and
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