Flora MacDonald College
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Flora MacDonald College | |
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| Location | College St. and 2nd Ave., Red Springs, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°45′41″N 79°10′56″W / 34.76139°N 79.18222°WCoordinates: 34°45′41″N 79°10′56″W / 34.76139°N 79.18222°W |
| Area | 30 acres (12 ha) |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 76001336[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 3, 1976 |
Flora MacDonald College, also known as Robeson Country Day school, was a women's college in Red Springs, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was founded 1896 as the Presbyterian Red Springs Seminary, renamed Southern Presbyterian College and Conservatory of Music in 1903 then Flora MacDonald College in 1915.[2][3]
The Neoclassical style main building was constructed between 1900 and 1910 and consists of six sections: the Conservatory Hall (1900); East Hall (1902); South Hall (1904); West Hall (1905); the center domed section Administration Hall (1906); and Long West (19l0). The main block, six bays wide and nine deep, has a Palladian entrance and a three-story Doric order tetrastyle portico and is surmounted by a cupola. In the garden is a stone monument commemorating two of Flora MacDonald's children, whose remains were moved from unmarked graves in Richmond County and reinterred on the college grounds in 1937.[4] The building was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]
As a result of a 1952 study of the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina the college was merged with Presbyterian Junior College of Maxton, North Carolina to form a four-year, coeducational college which is now St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, North Carolina.[2] Flora MacDonald College closed in 1961.
References
- 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 St. Andrews University. "St. Andrews University: History". St. Andrews University. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Wiley J. Williams (2008). "Flora MacDonald College". Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Ruth Little-Stokes and Robert Topkins (January 1976). "Flora MacDonald College" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
