Siloam School | |
Location | 1331 Congaree Rd., near Eastover, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 33°56′15″N80°49′33″W / 33.93750°N 80.82583°W Coordinates: 33°56′15″N80°49′33″W / 33.93750°N 80.82583°W |
Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
Built | c. 1936 |
Architectural style | Early 20th-century rural school |
MPS | African--American Primary and Secondary School Buildings MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 96000382 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 15, 1996 |
Siloam School is a historic school building located at Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1936, and is a one-story, two-room building built with funds from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It stands on a brick pier foundation and is clad in shiplap weatherboard siding. It operated as a school for African-American children until 1956. [2] [3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]
Eastover is a town in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 813 at the 2010 census, down from 830 in 2000. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richland County, South Carolina.
Siloam School may refer to:
Good Hope Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1857, and is a two-story, rectangular frame building. It has a front gable roof and a full height Greek Revival front portico.
Saint Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church dedicated to St. Thomas Aquinas. It was built in 1892 in Eastover, as a simple one-story frame church building, with Gothic Revival style design elements.
Goodwill Plantation is a historic plantation and national historic district located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings and two contributing structures. They include the millpond and a portion of the canal irrigation system ; the overseer's house ; the 2-1/2-story frame mill building ; two slave cabins ; a blacksmith shop; the late-19th century main house; a lodge ; and a carriage house, tenant house, barn and corn crib.
Claudius Scott Cottage is a historic home located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a one-story, frame Greek Revival residence. The front façade features a small pedimented porch with four wooden pillars. It was originally built as a summer residence.
Oakwood, also known as Trumble Cottage, is a historic plantation house located near Gadsden, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1877, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, vernacular Victorian frame cottage with Queen Anne style details. The front façade features a one-story porch with scroll-sawn brackets and a highly ornamented gabled dormer. Also on the property are two slave cabins, a double pen log barn, a corn crib, a frame well house, and another storage building.
J.A. Byrd Mercantile Store, also known as Nelson-Frazier Furniture, is a historic commercial building located at Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1910, and is a two-story, three bay, brick building. The front façade is faced with blond brick, marble, and cast stone. The first-floor has a three-bay arcade and the second story has three tall arched windows.
Farmers and Merchants Bank Building, also known as the Old Eastover Post Office, is a historic multi-purpose commercial building located at Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1910, and is a two-story, brick and cast-stone building with an angled corner entrance.
Hopkins Graded School, also known as Old Hopkins School, is a historic school building located at Hopkins, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1897, as a one-teacher school. It is a rambling, one-story, "L"-shaped, frame building with weatherboard siding and a gable roof. It features a small square belfry with a pyramidal roof. A new school was constructed across the street about 1914, and the old school was subsequently used as a teacherage.
Pine Grove Rosenwald School, also known as Pine Grove Colored School, is a historic Rosenwald school building located at St. Andrews, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a one-story, rectangular gable-front frame building. Its layout is a variant of the two-room schoolhouse and features large banks of tall narrow windows.
St. Phillip School is a historic school building for African American students located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1938, and is a one-story, three room school. The building is clad in shiplap weatherboard and rests on brick piers. The school closed in 1959.
Woodlands is a historic home located near Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1896, and is a two-story, wood-frame farmhouse with a cross-gable roof and classical and Folk Victorian ornamentation. The front facade features a grand two-tiered porch. Also on the property is a detached kitchen building. Woodlands was the home of Harry R. E. Hampton (1897-1980), a leading journalist and conservationist in South Carolina.
Kensington Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built between 1851 and 1853, by Colonel Richard Singleton, a brother of Angelica Singleton Van Buren, daughter-in-law of President Martin Van Buren. The wood frame dwelling consists of a 2+1⁄2-story, central section with a Second Empire style copper covered dome, flanked by lower wings with arched colonnades. The front entrance features a porte-cochere with Corinthian order arches and pilasters.
Olympia Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Olympia, near Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
The Zimmerman School is a historic school building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a small Greek Revival style one-story clapboard building with a gable roof. The school was built by Charles and Hannah Zimmerman, who operated it from 1848 to 1870, and also built the neighboring Zimmerman House.
Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard House, also known as Alwehav, is a historic plantation house located in rural Richland County, South Carolina, near Eastover. The original house was built about 1820, and enlarged to its present size about 1850. It is a large, two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style residence with Italianate features. Also on the property are the remnants of a water tower, a frame stable, a barn, three frame sheds, a well, and four modern shed buildings. The property also has a number of unique horticultural specimens.
Laurelwood is a historic plantation house located in rural Richland County, South Carolina, near the city of Eastover. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story frame dwelling with a central-hall, double-pile plan. The front façade features a two-tier, three bay, pedimented portico in the Greek Revival style. It has a one-story, frame addition built in the early-20th century. Also on the property ate the contributing frame smokehouse and a frame barn. Also notable is the survival of a slave quarters.
Richland Cotton Mill, also known as Pacific Mills, Lowenstein Mill, and Whaley's Mill, is a historic cotton mill building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1894, and is a four-story, rectangular brick mill building. It features a seven-story stair tower, with a circular vent flanked by two arched vents. Attached to the building are an engine room, a boiler room with chimney, and a machine shop.