Presbyterian College - Campus

Campus

Six buildings on Presbyterian College's 240-acre (97 ha) campus are part of the Thornwell-Presbyterian College Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Doyle Hall, Laurens Hall, Jacobs Hall, the president's house, Neville Hall, and the campus bell tower.

To house its students, Presbyterian College features 11 residence halls, 9 apartments, and 15 townhouses that together provide lodging for over 90% of the students at the college. Most of the residence halls are named for friends of the college. Men's residence halls include Bailey Hall and Georgia Hall. Women's residence halls include Belk Hall, Clinton Hall, Laurens Hall, and Smyth Hall. Four residence halls, Carol International House, Senior Hall, Barron Hall and Grotnes Hall are co-educational, either by suite, room, or floor. Reynolds Hall, once housing the campus's infirmary, is either housed by women or men only depending on the year. The college also uses 15 townhouse units to house 72 senior students and 9 Scottish Arms apartments to house an additional 18 students.

During the 2008–2009 academic year, Presbyterian College acquired a piece of property that will be used as the primary facility for the School of Pharmacy. The School of Pharmacy building will be a 54,000-square-foot (5,000 m2), multi-story facility housing classrooms, faculty offices, teaching and research laboratories, assessment areas, and a pharmacy clinic, the Center for Pharmacy Care. The facility is located in Clinton approximately 1-mile (1.6 km) from the Presbyterian College campus. A relationship between the City of Clinton and the college developed so that the city and college jointly acquired the building, the unoccupied former home of Presbyterian Home, an assisted living center. Renovation of the facility is scheduled to begin on April 1, 2009, with a completion and move-in date of April 1, 2010. Classes are scheduled to begin in August 2010.

Interestingly, Neville Hall is rumored to be haunted. The actual identity of the ghost is disputed, but many believe it to be either the spirit of the building's namesake (Neville) or the spirit of William Plumer Jacobs himself. However, another story suggests that the building is haunted by a student who allegedly committed suicide in the top floor of the building. The building is also labeled as a nuclear fallout shelter, along with several other academic buildings on campus.