Georgetown College Historic Buildings (Scott County, Kentucky)

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location= Georgetown, Kentucky
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 12
lat_seconds = 25
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 84
long_minutes = 33
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built =1844
architect= Unknown
architecture= Italianate
added = August 08, 1979
governing_body = Private
refnum=79001030cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Georgetown College Historic Buildings are a group of historically significant building located on the campus of Georgetown College in Scott County, Kentucky. The structures were added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Antebellum buildings

Georgetown College campus has three antebellum buildings: Giddings Hall, Pawling Hall, and Highbaugh Hall.

Giddings Hall

Recitation Hall, now known as Giddings Hall, is a Greek revival building located on at center of the campus. Giddings Hall was the first permanent structure constructed after the college was formed. cite web|url=http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/history.htm|title=A History of Georgetown College|publisher=Georgetown College|accessdate=2008-08-05] cite web|url=http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p643|title=Giddings Hall|date=November 2006|work=Historic Campus Architecture Project|publisher=Council of Independent Colleges|accessdate=2008-08-05]

Currently, the building is used as the main administrative building for the campus. In the past, rooms in the building have been used as a chapel, a library, classrooms, and a theater.

Highbaugh Hall

The Academy Building, now know as Highbaugh Hall, was second permanent building constructed on campus.

The literary societies used Highbaugh Hall to host their debates and for their resource library. The building entrances on the east and west have concrete plaques with the names and founding dates of the literary societies. cite web|url=http://einstein.georgetowncollege.edu/koz/1800/GClit.html|title=Lambda Chi Alpha|work=Literary Societies at Georgetown College|publisher=Georgetown College|accessdate=2008-08-09]

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