The Tocal Agricultural College, located in rural pastures at Tocal, north of Maitland, opened in 1965. Built initially at a cost of £368,000 funded from an endowment from the estate of C. B. Alexander and administered by the Presbyterian Church, the College was later taken over by the State Government of New South Wales.
The college buildings were designed in a visionary campus masterplan by its architects, Ian McKay and Philip Cox. Initially designed to accommodate 120 residential students, buildings are arranged around a central expansive lawn, which opens poetically onto a vista of sweeping fields in deference to the nearby historic Tocal Homestead. Smaller courtyards separate the college buildings and mature trees populate the grounds.
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