Architecture

The South Caroliniana Library, can be found on the Horseshoe. The library was built before the Civil war and was designed by Robert Mills in 1838 after the Library of Congress. The Library was the nation's first free standing library. Like the Library of Congress, the Library has four large Greek looking columns. These columns are better known as Doric columns. There is no real decoration on the columns. Instead, they are simple and clean looking. The Library is made of bricks, which, at the time, was the most inexpensive material to build form. The Library served as USC’s main library until 1940.