Houghton College is a 4-year Christian liberal arts college, operated by the Wesleyan Church. Houghton has a beautiful rural campus in the Genesee Valley of southwestern New York (Houghton, New York), and a secondary urban campus in Buffalo, New York.

Houghton began as a Houghton Seminary, offering high school-level work, in 1883, and began offering college level classes in 1899. The founder was Willard J. Houghton, a Wesleyan Methodist minister. It was chartered as a liberal arts college by New York State in 1923 and accredited by the Middle States Association of School and Colleges in 1935.

The school offers baccalaureate degrees in 48 fields, and is in process of adding a masters program in music. The student body is interdenominational.

The sports teams are the Highlanders.

Historical Personages and Alumni

Stephen W. Paine served as president of the college for thirty-five years. He taught classical languages in addition to his duties as president. When he became president in 1937 he was twenty-eight years old, making him the youngest head of a college in the U.S. at the time.

The Ortlip family is responsible for most of the artistic heritage of the college. H. Willard Ortlip was a benefactor of the college, and together with his daugher Aimee was responsible for the historic mural in the foyer of the campus chapel. Several Ortlip family members have taught art and painting at the college over the years, and the new art gallery on campus is named for the Ortlips.

Presidents of the College

• James S. Luckey, 1908-1937
• Stephen W. Paine, 1937-1972
• Wilber Dayton, 1972-1976
• Daniel R. Chamberlain, 1976-present)

External link

• http://www.houghton.edu/