Property

Location Information
(for the Oakland Chapel #3)

Name:

Oakland Chapel (#3)

Address:

Alcorn State University

City/County:

Alcorn, Claiborne County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1840-51

Architectural Styles(s):

Greek Revival

Registration Information

NHL Listing Date:

11 May 1976

NR Listing Date:

07 Dec 1974

NR District Name:

Alcorn State University

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

View National Register Nomination Form

Mississippi Landmark Information

Designated:

09-26-1985

Recorded:

11-12-1985

Book/Vol. No.:

V. 11-T, p. 349

Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Alcorn State University District

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Local Landmark Listing Date:

25 Nov 1991

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Context/Comments

Begun in 1838 as the main building of Oakland College, it is now the oldest building of Alcorn State University, the first land-grant college for African Americans in the nation. A temple-form Greek Revival brick auditorium with a two-story-high interior space, on a high brick basement, with a hexastyle portico. The iron steps leading to the portico were formerly the front steps of "Windsor" (021-ALC-1001).

Included in Historic "Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp.61-62), "Architecture in Claiborne County, Mississippi" (1974) (pp.81-82), and "Buildings in Mississippi" (2020) (p.65). [HABS MS-202 (1972)]

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