{"nrhp_refnum":"92000179","name":"Bennett College Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughy bounded by E. Washington, Bennett and Gorrell Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.06761932000006,"lon":-79.78008445199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic private college campus district in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, roughly bounded by E. Washington, Bennett and Gorrell Streets. The campus dates from the 1870s, and its present buildings were erected mainly in the early 1920s and between 1934 and 1941.","why_significant":"Bennett College has been one of Greensboro's most significant black institutions since its founding in 1873, and it became a four-year women's college in 1926. The campus is a carefully planned Georgian Revival ensemble of brick buildings arranged symmetrically around a tree-shaded quadrangle. It was designed by architects Odis Clay Poundstone, Charles C. Hartmann and Jens Frederick Larson.","narrative":"Bennett College occupies a campus in Greensboro, North Carolina, that it moved to between 1876 and 1878. The historic district centers on a grassy quadrangle lined with oaks and magnolias, with a flagpole at its center and a tall-steepled chapel at its north end. Most buildings are brick Georgian Revival structures with slate roofs, symmetrical facades, and classical porticoes. They were built mainly in the early 1920s and between 1934 and 1941, replacing the college's nineteenth-century buildings and farm fields. Atlanta architect Odis Clay Poundstone designed several of them, with Charles C. Hartmann of Greensboro and Jens Frederick Larson of New York also involved. The college began in 1873 as a primary and secondary school and was one of the few Greensboro schools offering education beyond the primary grades to black children. In 1926 it was reorganized as a four-year women's college, and it remains one of only two black women's colleges in the country. The district contains nineteen contributing resources.","period_of_significance":"1915 to 1941","architect_builder":"Poundstone, Odis Clay; Hartmann, Charles C.; Larson, Jens Frederick","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Resources are described as little altered and well maintained, with some deferred maintenance on exterior wood trim. The campus remains an operating college. Annie Merner Hall was being renovated at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.08699-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7179/47717963/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000179.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000179/2b0b461d82-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000179/2b0b461d82-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennett_College_from_Gorrell.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennett_College_from_Gorrell.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717963","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126122955"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/bennett-college-historic-district-92000179/"}