The Ohio Women's Methodist Seminary was a seminary

Seminary

A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...

 located in Delaware

Delaware, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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The seminary provided general educational opportunities to women in an era when co-educational institutions of higher learning were not yet fully open to students of both sexes. The Women's Seminary was governed by a board of directors chosen by the Methodist Episcopal Church

Methodist Episcopal Church

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, which oversaw the operation, and ensured that the curriculum

Curriculum

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 was in keeping with church teachings.

In 1855, funds for the Seminary's first and only institutional building were obtained from Mary Monnett (later Mary Monnett Bain

Mary Monnett Bain

Mary Monnett Bain , following her mother's death, came into a very large sum of money...

), a student who attended the school. The resulting building, Monnett Hall, was named for her. Monnett Hall was razed in the late 1970s and the site is now occupied by Monnett Gardens.