In 1997, two miles to the east along the East 33rd Street boulevard, the university purchased the closed and vacant 200000 sqft former building of the old elite all-girls public secondary Eastern High School (one of a set of twins with its sister school, Western High still in existence – both founded in 1844 as the oldest female public high schools in the nation, with this its fourth occupied structure, constructed 1936–1938, as a twin matching design to the also former WHS building of 1925–1927 on Gwynns Falls Parkway in the northwest city).