View of the former Liverpool College of Art building from Blackburne Place. The building is now owned by LIPA.
Liverpool College of Art was located at 68 Hope Street, in Liverpool, England. The college was housed in a Grade IIlisted building, which still stands. The original building, facing Mount Street, was designed by Thomas Cook and completed in 1883. The extension along Hope Street, designed by Willink and Thicknesse, opened in 1910.[1] The building was until 2012 owned by Liverpool John Moores University. The university's School of Art and Design (formerly known as the Liverpool College of Art) moved out of the building to new premises at the Art and Design Academy in 2008.[2] 68 Hope Street also currently houses the School of Humanities and Social Science.[3]
Staff at the Liverpool College of Art in the late 1950s (at the time of John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe) included Walter Norman,Julia Carter Preston, Arthur Ballard, Charles Burton, Nicholas Horsfield, George Mayer-Marton, E. S. S. English, Alfred K. Wiffen, Austin Davies, Philip Hartas, and the college's then-principal W. L. Stevenson.
In March 2012, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) announced that it had purchased the former Liverpool College of Art building for £3.7million to expand its teaching space.[4]
