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Currell College, completed in 1919, is an historic two-story redbrick university building on the campus of the University of South Carolina (USC) in
It was originally named Petigru College and was built to serve as the USC law school, which had outgrown its quarters in Legare College. When a new law school building was built in 1952, the name Petigru College was given to it and the 1919 building was renamed Currell College to honor William S. Currell, USC's president when it was built, and it was then used by the history department.
The building's redbrick exterior was a departure from USC's standard of gray-painted stucco over brick on all of its previous buildings, except the South Caroliniana Library and Lieber College, and according to USC historian Daniel Walker Hollis: " ... it has been something of an architectural misfit on the inner campus ever since."
In the mid-1950s the two-story Currell College Annex was built to the south of the 1919 building and joined to it by a two-story glass and metal stairwell-hallway structure. The annex, while built of redbrick, is utilitarian and does not continue the
Currell College
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080628235817/http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/ufarch/edwards.htm University of Florida biography of William Augustus Edwards*
USC Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice: contains image of Currell College west side showing new glass stairwell and part of Annex on the south
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Columbia
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, South Carolina in the United States. It was designed by Darlington
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In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...
native William Augustus Edwards
William Augustus Edwards, also known as William A. Edwards (December 8, 1866 – March 30, 1939) was an Atlanta-based American architect renowned for the educational buildings, courthouses and other public and private buildings that he design ...
who designed academic buildings at 12 institutions of higher learning as well as 13 courthouses and numerous other buildings in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Currell, which is pronounced as if it were spelled Curl, is the only building that Edwards built for USC. The Cain House at 1619 Pendleton Street which he designed in 1912 for a private owner, though, is now part of the expanded USC campus and is used as ''The Inn at USC''.
History
It was originally named Petigru College and was built to serve as the USC law school, which had outgrown its quarters in Legare College. When a new law school building was built in 1952, the name Petigru College was given to it and the 1919 building was renamed Currell College to honor William S. Currell, USC's president when it was built, and it was then used by the history department.
The building's redbrick exterior was a departure from USC's standard of gray-painted stucco over brick on all of its previous buildings, except the South Caroliniana Library and Lieber College, and according to USC historian Daniel Walker Hollis: " ... it has been something of an architectural misfit on the inner campus ever since."
In the mid-1950s the two-story Currell College Annex was built to the south of the 1919 building and joined to it by a two-story glass and metal stairwell-hallway structure. The annex, while built of redbrick, is utilitarian and does not continue the collegiate Gothic
Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...
features of the original building.
Currell College today is the home of the USC Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The Currell College Annex houses the USC Office of Special Events/
The 1919 building excluding the annex is a contributing property
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in the Old Campus District, University of South Carolina
The Old Campus District, University of South Carolina, is a historic district centered on The Horseshoe on the main campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. On June 5, 1970, it was listed in the National Registe ...
, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1970.
See also
*List of Registered Historic Places in South Carolina
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References
External links
Currell College
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080628235817/http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/ufarch/edwards.htm University of Florida biography of William Augustus Edwards*
USC Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice: contains image of Currell College west side showing new glass stairwell and part of Annex on the south
{{University of South Carolina, show=no University of South Carolina Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina William Augustus Edwards buildings Historic district contributing properties in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina