Davidson College campus, Davidson, North Carolina. County/parish: Mecklenburg.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1972. NRIS 72000975.
1 contributing building.
Philanthropic Hall, Davidson College is a historic school building located on the campus of Davidson College at Davidson, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built by the Philanthropic Society, a literary and debating society.
It is a two-story, temple-form brick structure three bays wide and three bays long in the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a prostyle tetrastyle Doric order pedimented portico supported by four massive stuccoed brick columns. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. The building faces Eumenean Hall across the original quadrangle of Davidson College.
It was converted to office use in 1956. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721308