Kumler Hall
Kumler Hall, April 2012
Kumler Hall is located in South Carolina
Kumler Hall
Kumler Hall is located in the United States
Kumler Hall
LocationLancaster and Cemetery Sts., Chester, South Carolina
Coordinates34°42′27″N 81°11′19″W / 34.70750°N 81.18861°W / 34.70750; -81.18861
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1916 (1916)
NRHP reference No.83002190[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 27, 1983

Kumler Hall is a historic dormitory that was part of the Brainerd Institute, in Chester, Chester County, South Carolina. Brainerd Institute was one of the earliest and finest of the many private schools established for African-American freedmen in South Carolina in the years just after the American Civil War. The school operated from about 1868 until 1940 by the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church.

Kumler Hall was built about 1916, and is a brick two-story boys dormitory. It has a central longitudinal hallway opening onto the porch, with a central single-flight stairway and classrooms and dormitory rooms opening on either side on both floors and the basement.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Suzanne Pickens Wylie; John E. Wells; Linda VanderBroek (August 1982). "Kumler Hall" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Kumler Hall-Brainerd Institute, Chester County (Lancaster & Cemetery Sts., Chester)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

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