Fort Valley State College Historic District

Sixteen acres of the Fort Valley State University campus in Fort Valley, Georgia, make up this historic district, which centers on a landscaped quadrangle. Eleven contributing buildings, a historic water tank and the quadrangle itself survive from the school's early decades. The oldest is the Anderson House, a frame residence from the 1890s, followed by Huntington Hall, a girls' dormitory finished in 1908 with student labor. Most of the other brick buildings, dating from 1925 to 1952, are in the Georgian Revival style. The New York firm Ludlow and Peabody designed Carnegie Hall, Peabody Building, Founders Hall, Ohio Hall and Bishop Hall. Patton Hall and the former College Center, now St. Luke's Episcopal Church, were designed by Stanislaw Makielski. The campus grew from Fort Valley High and Industrial School, which had ties to the Episcopal Church's American Church Institute for Negroes, and became a state college in 1939. The buildings record that history of African-American higher education, even though many interiors have been altered for new uses.