South Carolina Department of Archives and History
National Register Properties in South Carolina

University of South Carolina Old Campus District, Richland County (Columbia)
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Flinn Hall South Caroliniana
Library
Elliot College Harper College McCutchen House
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DeSaussure
College
Rutledge College President's
House
Pinckney College Leiber House
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Gymnasium/
Longstreet Theater
Horseshoe Common Maxcy Monument

(University of South Carolina Historic District) Chartered in 1801 as South Carolina College, opened 1805, and re-chartered as University of South Carolina in 1865, the institution reflects the ambitions and fortunes of the state. A tree-shaded quadrangle centers the Old Campus District. The buildings bordering the quadrangle present balanced grouping and harmony of design, austere simplicity of early Republican architecture. A brick wall erected in 1835 surrounds them. Landmarks include Rutledge College (ca. 1805) and Maxcy Monument (ca. 1827), both designed by Robert Mills; DeSaussure College (1809), designed by Edward Clark; South Caroliniana Library (ca.1840), the oldest separate college library building in the United States; and the Gymnasium, designed by Jacob Graves in 1855 as a chapel. There are over twenty other contributing campus institutional buildings and numerous contributing landscape features. Listed in the National Register June 5, 1970.

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