Built 1907 VLR # 020-5246 Opened 1907 Added to NRHP 7 May 1980 | NRHP Reference # 80004180 Designated VLR February 19, 1980 Area 1 ha | |
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Location Virginia State University campus, Ettrick, Virginia Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture | ||
Vawter Hall and the Old President's House are two of the oldest buildings at Virginia State University, the oldest state-supported college for blacks in the United States. Vawter Hall was built and named in 1908 in honor of the school’s late rector and authority on industrial training, Charles E. Vawter. The School was originally chartered as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1882, created through an agreement with the Readjuster Party to found a state-supported school of higher learning for blacks.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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