Where is Marian College?

Marist College was founded as a seminary, later developing into an independent academy of higher learning. The history of Marist College begins in 1905 when the Marist Brothers, members of the religious teaching order founded in France 90 years earlier by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, arrived in the Mid-Hudson Valley to establish the first Marist house of studies in the United States. On the east bank of the Hudson, just north of Poughkeepsie, they opened their novitiate, Saint Ann's Hermitage, and began their work of training young men for a life of study, work, prayer and service. By 1929, the training center at the Hermitage had evolved into the Marist Normal Training School and, by 1946, into a chartered four-year college, Marian College, whose mission remained the training of Marist Brothers as teachers of the congregation's schools.