Heritage Green

The Hidden History of Greenville's Leading Cultural Space

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Heritage Green

Greenville, South Carolina 29617, United States

Created By: Brandon Inabinet

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This tour is told from the perspective of Mary Judson, the “Lady Principal” of Greenville Women’s College and a pioneer in the movement for equal education for women. She is excited to welcome children who have come to Heritage Green to learn about the place she once taught generations of women.

(This tour was created by Communication Studies students at Furman University in the fall semester of 2018 and revised fall semester 2020. User Note: In the app, additional photographs on the tour are available by swiping left and right. If you are not visually impaired, we advise muting your phone or turning off "text to speech" en route, under the Settings menu.)

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City of Greenville's Heritage Green

HeritageGreen.org

VisitGreenvilleSC's Heritage Green


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Good morning everyone! Today on your tour we’re going to learn about this area we now call Heritage Green, that was once the Greenville Women’s College! On this lawn, I oversaw women begin, celebrate, and close their educational journ... Read more
You are actually standing where the women of GWC entered their campus many years ago! Although I passed away on December 29th, 1920, I heard the girls talking about building big brick entryways for the spot. And so they did! The classes of... Read more
The location of this "Little Theatre" has had a dramatic impact on Greenville's cultural scene, first as the David M. Ramsey Fine Arts Center, and afterward as the current theatre space. The Greenville Women’s College had a significan... Read more
Towering trees canopy the white, cave-like building that is Greenville County Museum of Art. This building was awarded “one of the most interesting” buildings by the American Association of Architects. It is a massive structure that hou... Read more
Looking back between these buildings, toward the playground equipment and parking lot, you're staring at one of the most fun spots in Greenville, historically. It's the location of "The Shack." The Shack was built in 1939, a quaint clap-bo... Read more
The old campus of the GWC didn't end here.  In the photograph, you can see the historic aerial photo from the 1950s, with yellow overlay of modern Academy Street cutting through campus. Before the the college was built in the mid-1850s, Ac... Read more
This gleaming modern building, finished on October 7, 2002, hides a nationally significant history for the Greenville Public Library. Throughout the early-to-mid-20th century, "separate but equal" facilities dominated the American South. S... Read more
Before we completely leave the subject of libraries , it is very important to mention the significance of this building right here, the Judson Library. Look across this entrance, the road to Heritage Green, where the historical marker is, i... Read more
This side of Heritage Green was not part of the Greenville Women's College but also had its share of unique Greenville history as a gathering place for the community. November 17, 1930 marked the opening of the Coca-Cola bottling plant at ... Read more
Built at the same time as the new library building (photograph of the construction above), this structure was designed to look much older. Specifically, its clock tower and brick siding capture the mill design of Greenville's historic texti... Read more

 

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