Calvin College and Seminary
These schools are institutions of the Christian Reformed Church, a denomination founded in 1857 in western Michigan by Dutch immigrants whose religious roots lay in the Calvinist Reformation. The seminary began in an upper room of a school building on Williams Street, Grand Rapids, in 1876. From 1892 to 1917 it was located on Madison Avenue. thereafter it was move To the Franklin Street campus, where Calvin College, emerging from its preparatory school attachment to the seminary, became in 1921 a four-year degree granting institution. The present campus, Knollcrest Farm, was acquired in 1956. Development of it began in 1959. These related schools, which emphasize liberal arts and theological education, are dedicated to preparing youth for the service of God.