The Lutheran Theological Seminary Building: Beam Dormitory was the first permanent building at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary

Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary

Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary , located in Columbia, South Carolina is a theological seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America offering first and second professional theological degrees.-History:...

 in Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 129,272 according to the 2010 census. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. The city is the center of a metropolitan...

. It was built in 1911 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson

Charles M. Robinson

Charles Morrison Robinson , most commonly known as Charles M. Robinson, was an American architect. He worked in Altoona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1906 and in Richmond, Virginia from 1906 until the time of his death in 1932...

. The structure was built by Wise Granite Co. It included a chapel, housing, refectory

Refectory

A refectory is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries...

, classrooms, and faculty offices. Beam Hall is now used as a dormitory and also contains office suites, meeting rooms, and an exercise facility. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1979.