Kumler Hall

{{Use American English|date=April 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Infobox NRHP | name = Kumler Hall | nrhp_type = | image = Kumler Hall.jpg | caption = Kumler Hall, April 2012 | location = Lancaster and Cemetery Sts., Chester, South Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|34|42|27|N|81|11|19|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = South Carolina#USA | built = {{Start date|1916}} | architect OR builder = | added = January 27, 1983 | area = {{convert|1.5|acre}} | refnum = 83002190<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} '''Kumler Hall''' is a historic dormitory that was part of the Brainerd Institute, in Chester, Chester County, South Carolina. Brainerd Institute was one of the earliest and finest of the many private schools established for African-American freedmen in South Carolina in the years just after the American Civil War. The school operated from about 1868 until 1939 by the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church.

Kumler Hall was built about 1916, and is a brick two-story boys dormitory. It has a central longitudinal hallway opening onto the porch, with a central single-flight stairway and classrooms and dormitory rooms opening on either side on both floors and the basement.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web |author1=Suzanne Pickens Wylie |author2=John E. Wells |author3=Linda VanderBroek | title = Kumler Hall| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = August 1982| url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/chester/S10817712013/S10817712013.pdf | accessdate = 17 March 2014}}</ref><ref name = scdah>{{Cite web | title =Kumler Hall-Brainerd Institute, Chester County (Lancaster & Cemetery Sts., Chester)| work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/chester/S10817712013/index.htm | accessdate =17 March 2014}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.<ref name = nris/>

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Category:African-American history of South Carolina Category:Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Category:Residential buildings completed in 1916 Category:Buildings and structures in Chester County, South Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, South Carolina