{"nrhp_refnum":"80002903","name":"St. Augustine's College Campus (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Oakwood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.785359276000065,"lon":-78.61943530199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Ethnic Heritage-Black"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historically Black college campus on Oakwood Avenue in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, founded in 1867-68 by the Episcopal Church's Freedmen's Commission. The nominated area covers roughly 20 acres of the older central and southern campus.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the school as a prime example of the physical and philosophical development of Black education after the Civil War, moving from teacher training and industrial education to a liberal arts college. It also reflects the history of St. Agnes Hospital, ties to notable Episcopal bishops and early Black and women physicians, and the campus's varied institutional Gothic, Romanesque and later buildings.","narrative":"St. Augustine's College occupies a campus along Oakwood Avenue in Raleigh, North Carolina. The school was incorporated in 1867 and began instruction in January 1868 as a project of the Episcopal Church's Freedmen's Commission, training teachers for Black communities after the Civil War. A permanent site was acquired in 1868 from the Seven Springs estate, and the campus grew to 110 acres. The oldest surviving building is the stone chapel of 1895, followed by the Romanesque Revival Benson Library of 1896-98 and the stone St. Agnes Hospital completed in 1909. Brick buildings with classical revival details, including Hunter, Delaney and Cheshire, formed the central oval in the 1920s and 1930. The school moved from normal school to junior college and then full college status in 1928. It was listed for its role in Black education, its links to church leaders and early Black and women physicians, and its range of institutional architecture.","period_of_significance":"1867-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Institutional Gothic and Romanesque Revival, with classical revival brick buildings and more recent styles","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Condition marked good; the campus is occupied and privately owned by the college.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.536694-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/7226/47722643/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002903.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002903/7c1a372e2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002903/7c1a372e2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Mx. Granger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Augustine%27s_University_Historic_Chapel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mx. Granger</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Augustine%27s_University_Historic_Chapel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722643","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Augustine%27s_University_(North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7587158"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/st-augustines-college-campus-additional-documentation-80002903/"}