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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: February 3, 2009
Caption: Philomathean Literary Society Hall (1859)
Southwest Facade
Erskine College Quadrangle
Additional Description: Significant Property This building is the oldest building on the Erskine College Campus. It was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by architect Thomas Veal of Columbia. Constructed in 1859 and still in use, it is the home of the Philomatheum Literary Society. The society meeting room on the second floor features an elaborate ceiling mural and tromp Poeil podium. (Source: Abbeville County by the Abbeville County Historical Society (2004), p 100.)
Submitted: July 12, 2009, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p70422
File Size: 0.117 Megabytes

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