Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) is a Christian liberal arts college located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The result of a 1960 education commission, Mount Vernon Nazarene was first chartered as the Zone A College of the Church of the Nazarene in 1964 by the church's General Assembly. The Mount Vernon site was chosen in 1966 for its proximity to a concentrated Nazarene population, and Mount Vernon Nazarene College (MVNC) opened in 1968 on the old Lakeholm Farm property that had belonged to The Ohio State University. The Lakeholm Farm was the former home of Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior under Ulysses S. Grant. Three buildings (Manor, Ice House, and Barn) original to Lakeholm Farm, are still in operation on the campus today. Originally a two-year junior college, and thought to be a feeder school for the much older Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) in Massachusetts, it became a four-year school in 1970, was accredited for two-year degrees in 1972 and four-year degrees in 1974, and graduate degrees in Christian ministry were added in 1991. It was renamed Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) in 2002. MVNU's main campus is along the southern edge of Mount Vernon, Ohio.