Bennett College Historic District

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.