Category: Buildings
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Vetville
North Greenville has a long history of helping students receive an education who normally would not have had the opportunity for one. In fact, North Greenville was founded as a high school in 1892 because there were no high schools in the upper part of Greenville County. Later, students would…
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The Elton and Doris Todd Gathering Place and Jacks and Deborah Tingle Student Life Center: A History
As the student population continued to rise in the early 2000s, overcrowding in the Neves Dining Hall and Foster Student Center became a major issue. An addition to Neves Dining Hall in the 1990s relieved the issue for a few years, but more space was needed. During high traffic times…
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Bruce Hall: North Greenville’s Largest Housing Facility
The 1960s were a transformational time for private colleges as the number of young people entering college grew and, therefore, the number of boarding students also grew. To accommodate this growing trend, the trustees and the administration at North Greenville Junior College approved a new men’s dorm to be built…
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Simpson Hall: North Greenville’s Longest Used Dorm
In 1960, the only women’s dorms on campus were White Hall and Wingo Hall. Wingo Hall was built in 1916 and White Hall was built in 1937. There was a concern that neither of the women’s dorms were fireproof and they could easily burn to the ground quickly if a…
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From J.H. Roe & Son to The Eddie Runyan Creative Arts Center: North Greenville’s Second Oldest Building
John Heiskell Roe was a prominent merchant in the Tigerville community. His parents were early settlers in the area, and he had grown up in Tigerville. He was interested in agriculture and business and in 1904, he built a store in his hometown named J.H. Roe & Son. Brick was…
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Two Tigerville Schools: The Connections between North Greenville University and Tigerville Elementary School
Tigerville Elementary School is one of the oldest continuing schools in Greenville County. According to oral tradition, the school began in 1866 in a small one-room schoolhouse building. It was in this one-room building that a committee from the North Greenville Baptist Association met to select a location for a…
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From the John T. Wood House to the Barbara McCormick House: A History of one of Tigerville’s Oldest Homes
The Wood family were some of the early settlers in Tigerville. Sometime before the Civil War, Dr. Thomas Earle Wood moved to Tigerville and purchased a home. His house was located on the property that is now Grazer’s Store at Famoda Farms on Highway 253. Dr. Wood left Tigerville to…
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North Greenville College at Greenville
Extension centers were not new to North Greenville in the 1970s. In the 1960s, North Greenville had an extension center in Greer that offered evening classes for adults who could not attend day classes in Tigerville. In the fall of 1973, North Greenville opened an extension center in Greenville. The…
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Serving the North Greenville Community: A History of the Tuttle Clinic Building
There was not a clinic on campus until the late 1950s when Rose Clayton was hired by Dr. Donnan, the college president, as the new campus nurse. At first, Nurse Clayton lived in a small apartment in the middle floor of the old auditorium with her son, Neves, and the…
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The Stud: A History of Student Centers at North Greenville
Generations of students have enjoyed various student centers throughout the school’s history. Affectionately called “The Stud”, the student centers have provided a place for students to fellowship, play, eat, and study. The first student center at North Greenville was in a house that had once belonged to Benjamin F. Neves,…
From These Roots 