Monument for Immanuel Lutheran College now graces A&T campus
Alumni of former Immanuel Lutheran Collge, which was located on a small campus on East Market Street until it closed in 1961, now at least have a reminder of where their alma mater stood.
According to the Aggie Report, published by N.C. A&T State University, a monument to the school was unveiled recently on the portion of A&T's campus that Immanuel Lutheran occupied.
Lutheran was founded in 1903 in Concord for black students by white German Lutherans. The school moved to Greensboro in 1905, where a large granite main building was built. The school operated a high school, junior college and seminary.
The stone main building was torn down shortly after the college closed. But one of its last-built buildings, a combination gymnasium and dormitory, survived until 2005 and was used by A&T.
The monument reads: "A unique private insitution that trained teachers and religious leaders for the black community. The school....was under the jurisdiction of the Luthern Church Synod."
The stone displays an engraving of the main building and lists the former presidents, starting with Niles Bakke, considered the school's founder, and ending with the Rev. William H. Kampschmidt.