Clemson College Sheep Barn
National Register Listing
Street Address:
S. Palmetto Blvd., Clemson University campus, Clemson, SC (Pickens County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817739004
Description and Narrative:
The Clemson College Sheep Barn, built c. 1915, is significant as the earliest extant and relatively intact building associated with Clemson University’s early Agricultural Department. The building’s principal section was constructed of clay brick, laid in English bond, which was probably handmade at the brick plant nearby and matches the brick of the University’s Trustee House and Kinnard Annex. It is similar in style and form to a dairy barn, the first barn on campus, which burned, was rebuilt, and later altered. The sheep barn is a single, rectangular block approximately two stories in height with a gabled, standing seam metal sheathed roof supported by simple brackets on each gable end. The roof is surmounted by three square vented cupolas, capped by pyramidal roofs with similar sheathing and ball finials. Listed in the National Register January 4, 1990.
Period of Significance:
circa 1915
Level of Significance:
State
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Agriculture;Education
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
January 4 1990
