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Now a museum and the offices for the Western College Alumnae Association it was completed in 1898 and originally named “Glenwilde”. It was used as a summer home by James R. Patterson, and was his residence at his time of death in 1913. Patterson house and land were given to Western College in 1914 and renamed “Patterson Place”. It was the official residence of Western presidents until 1974.