Centre College
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![Completed in 1820, Old Centre is the oldest continuously operated academic building west of the Alleghenies.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Centre_College_Kentucky5342.jpg")
![Norton Center for the Arts, the morning of the 2000 Vice Presidential Debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman](/Images/godic/202501/03/Centrecollegedebate5342.jpg")
![Built in 1973, the Norton Center for the Arts was designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Norton_Center_for_the_Arts5343.jpg")
Centre College is a private liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, a community of approximately 16,000 in Boyle County, about 35 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky. Centre is an undergraduate four-year institution with an enrollment of approximately 1,375 students. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders, with whom it maintains a loose affiliation, and officially chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1819. The College is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.