The South Caroliniana Library is one of the oldest and most prominent buildings on the campus of the University of South Carolina. Built in 1840, it has served generations of students. It still serves as the University’s archive library and includes exhibit space displaying the Library’s museum collections to students and the public. In 2017 the University of South Carolina began design for this major rehabilitation of the historic library, located in the most historic corner of campus, the Horseshoe. The project team’s ambition was to improve the building’s structural stability, create a proper archival environment with modern temperature and humidity controls for the collections, create exhibits to highlight the library’s remarkable collections, and restore the character-defining spaces of the library’s interior, The showcase of the restoration is the library’s Bulfinch reading room, one of the finest public interiors of any building in the state of South Carolina.

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2023 AIA South Atlantic Region Merit Award
2023 AIA South Carolina Merit Award
2023 Brick Industry Association Brick in Architecture Award

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINIANA LIBRARY c.1840

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