The Ellis Avenue Historic District [†] contains eight buildings, all but one of which, Ellis Avenue School, are residences. The houses were constructed around the turn of the century and are substantial one- and two-story, weatherboarded frame residences with decorative woodwork on the porches and/or in the front-facing gable ends. Ellis Avenue School, a two-story, brick building, was built in 1931. These buildings are set on very large, landscaped lots along a tree-lined portion of Ellis Avenue.
The District is a significant concentration of basically unaltered turn-of-the-century residences and a 1931 school building. The houses display a variety of architectural characteristics of the period including wraparound porches, lozenge windows in the transom, a polygonal bay, and imbricated shingles. Ellis Avenue School is architecturally significant as an example of the collegiate design of James B. Urquhart, prominent South Carolina architect.
The District is part of the City of Orangeburg Multiple Resource Area, nomination document, 1985, prepared by Mary Watson Edmoms, John E. Wells and Debra J. Allen, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, accessed January, 2024.
Street Names
Ellis Avenue