Livingstone College, with its adjoining residential area, are an important chapter in the history of Black Americans.  The African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church, with a long-standing commitment to education, founded this black institution of higher learning in a time when black schools were usually paternalistic outreaches of the white community.

The College, formerly Zion Wesley College, relocated from Concord to Salisbury in 1882 under the direction of Joseph Charles Price.  It was renamed in 1897 to Livingstone College after British Christian missionary and African explorer, David Livingstone.  To learn more of the history and other information about Livingstone College, click here to be directed to its website.

The Livingstone College Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and includes the College on the south side of West Monroe Street along with a residential area on the north side of West Monroe.  The district is visually unified in its academic architectural feeling as well as spatially divided by the lawn and West Monroe Street. The wide lawn which extends nearly the length of the Campus with its hedges and great line of oak trees on its inner edge is the site of the first intercollegiate black football game.

The Victorian eclectic architectural style is evident in the Carnegie Library (1908), Goler Hall (1917), the Hood Building (1910), and the Price Memorial building (1930).  The oldest building still existing on campus is Dodge Hall built as a dormitory and classrooms in 1886.

The homes across Monroe Street from the College, are a collection of modest, late Victorian middle-class structures which historically housed faculty of the college.  Included in this area is the Joseph Charles Price home built in 1884 to house the College founder and President.

Source: National Historic Register Nomination form and Livingstone College web site

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