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Title	Tennssee State University Historic District: Engineering Building
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	1996?
Coverage	1990-1999
Property name	Tennessee State University Historic District
Property type	School
Additional property type	District
National Register Reference	96000677 listed June 14, 1996
Community Name	Nashville, Davidson County, TN
Latitude/Longitude	36.165787,-86.831614
Description	Color photograph of the engineering building, built by McKissack and McKissack Architects between 1943 and 1949. It is a brick, three-story flat roof U plan building. The eleven bay facade is characterized by a projecting limestone entrance that includes three inset double doors. Two broad flights of limestone steps lead up from the street.
Historical Notes	Tennessee State University was established in 1912 as the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School, the first African-American public institution of higher education in Tennessee. The land-grant school was built on thirty-five acres with an additional ninety-five acres dedicated for a demonstration farm. It was established by the Tennessee Legislature in the same period that normal schools were established for white students in each region of the state. It's creation also reflects a response to Booker T. Washington's "Tuskegee Idea" for Negro industrial education. A particular emphasis was placed on education of public school teachers. The three original campus buildings have been demolished. The seven buildings included in the TSU Historic District were constructed between 1915 and 1949 along Centennial Blvd: Goodwill Manor (1915); Learning Resource Center (1927); Harned Science Hall (c.1927); Jane E. Elliot Building (1932); Administrative and Health Building (1933); Industrial Arts Building (1933); and Engineering Building (1943-1949). Several of the buildings were designed by McKissack and McKissack, a prominent African-American architectural firm in Nashville. All of the buildings were constructed of red brick with limestone elements.
Collection Name	Southern History Documentary Projects
Subject-LCSH	Tennessee State University Historic districts
Subject-TGM	Historic buildings Schools Universities & colleges
Type	Still image
Format	jpeg2000
Genre	Photograph
Medium	Paper
Extent	35 mm slide
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Source file	TSU004