Four giant pillars of the Tuscan order rise to support the pediment that extends across the entire street façade of the structure. The Gate Lodge, also designed by White and built in 1852, is a rectangular two-story brick and stucco structure in the Roman Revival style. In 1930 the west wing was extended to reach College Street. White added large two-story brick and stucco wings to the east and west sides and the present grandiose colossal portico, with six giant Roman Ionic pillars and arcaded basement, to the center of the main façade. The Main Building, designed by William Strickland and built in 1828-29, was a simple, rectangular two-story over elevated basement brick structure with a pedimented three bay wide projecting pavilion on the south (main) façade and gable ends on the east and west sides. The historic campus of the College of Charleston contains three structures, the Main Building, the Library, and Gate Lodge, situated in an attractive setting of evergreen oaks, that achieve a certain degree of unity by means of the prevailing Pompeian red coloring of their stuccoed walls. Randolph Hall (interior, seen above), Porter’s Lodge, and the Library are listed in the National Register as part of the College of Charleston: National Register Sites – College of Charleston Jayson Doyle of Goose Creek, 2019 © Do Not Use Without Written Consent The building is named for former college president Lee Higdon, who served from 2001 through 2006, and his wife, Ann. The center is located in an historic Charleston single house built prior to 1817 for Nathaniel Farr and his wife, Katherine. Students are always invited to sit on the welcoming porch seen above, which serves as the Lee and Ann Higdon Student Leadership Center. Higdon Leadership Center – College of Charleston After the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare informed the college that students would be unable to borrow money if it did not allow minorities to enroll, it acquiesced and by 1970 had again came under state control. In 1949, after receiving applications from local black high school students, the college was awarded a new charter and Charleston’s city council transferred ownership of the college back to its board. Erckmann served as the college’s attorney and successfully persuaded the trustees to privatize as a means of avoiding integration. Erckmann (1878–1963), a College of Charleston graduate and member of the state legislature. Today the residence is known as the Erckmann House in honor of Harry L. The Erckmann House serves as offices for the Department of Communication. The college restored the historic buildings and now uses them for faculty offices. All three of the buildings that comprised the former Charleston Female Academy were acquired by the College of Charleston in 1971. From 1946 through 1971, Zeigler and Edwin Peacock operated the Book Basement here, which for years was Charleston’s only bookstore. Susan Buckley of Charleston, 2016 © Do Not Use Without Written Consentįor nearly a century, the home was owned by the Follin family, and the last Follin descendant to own the home was John A.