The dream of York College involved hundreds of people--its reality has
touched the lives of thousands. Born in a small town on the rolling
plains of Nebraska in 1890, the United Brethren Church and citizens of
York established York College on an empty expanse of prairie called East
Hill. Its earliest classes, offered in rented rooms above a dry goods
store on the town square, established the foundations of a Christian
college. The institution grew as buildings arrived with each passing
decade. These brick-and-mortar symbols of the college's progress include
Old Main, Hulitt Conservatory of Music, Alumni Library, and Middlebrook
Hall. When a tragic fire engulfed the school's venerable Old Main in
1951, York College was pulled from the ashes as a second group of
believers took the institution's reins. The Churches of Christ
determined to continue the dream, standing on the shoulders of those who
had come before them.