McKissick Museum – Columbia SC

City:
Columbia, SC

Site Type:
Education and Health, Libraries, Museums, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

“McKissick Museum is located at the heart of the historic Horseshoe on the Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina. It was established in 1976 by the University Board of Trustees to bring together under one roof the many object collections housed in various departments and colleges across campus…

The McKissick building is a Works Progress Administration structure erected in 1939 as the University’s library. It stands on the site of the first President’s house built on the Horseshoe, which was removed to make room for the library in 1937. A plaque commemorating the house lies in front of McKissick Museum at the edge of the grass bordering the plaza.”   (https://artsandsciences.sc.edu)

Source notes

National Archives, RG 69 Records of the Work Projects Administration, “Information Service (Primary) File, 1936-1942.”

https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/index.php?q=about

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on May 21, 2013.

Location Info


816 Bull Street
Columbia, SC 29208

Coordinates: 33.998766, -81.02694

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