An enrollment boom at South Carolina College during the 1830s prompted construction of two student dormitories, Pinckney and Elliott. Like other Horseshoe residence halls, they were patterned after those at Yale University in which apartments were arranged into a single tenement to foster socially cohesive groups. Legare housed the Clariosophic Society, whose members sometimes debated with the Euphradian Society. Pinckney and Elliott were originally named New South (Pinckney) and New North (Elliott), while Rutledge and DeSaussure became Old South and Old North, respectively. The Columbia Daily Telegraph suggested in 1848 — the same year that Harper and Legare were completed — that campus buildings be renamed for prominent citizens and alumni.
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Building Abbreviation: LGP