South Carolina State College Historic District
National Register Listing
Street Address:
300 College St., Orangeburg, SC (Orangeburg County)
Alternate Name:
South Carolina State University Historic District
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817738034
Description and Narrative:
(South Carolina State University Historic District) The South Carolina State College Historic District is the core of the historic campus at South Carolina State University. It is significant as a tangible illustration of the evolution of the college from a primarily vocational and technical institution to a more comprehensive institution of higher education, as an institution of central significance to South Carolina African Americans, and architecturally as a concentration of twentieth-century Classical Revival collegiate architecture. The district consists of eleven buildings, one landscape feature, and one object historically associated with the university. Constructed between 1917 and 1969, they are a central visual feature of a campus that has undergone numerous changes and significant expansion in the latter half of the twentieth century. The Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina – after 1954, South Carolina State College, and since 1992, South Carolina State University – was established in 1896 “for the higher education of the colored youth of the state” by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly. Listed in the National Register June 19, 1997.
Period of Significance:
1968;1938;1949
Level of Significance:
State
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Ethnic Heritage: Black;Education
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
June 19 1997
