South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind

South Carolina, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind, located in unincorporated Spartanburg County near Spartanburg, is a Greek Revival structure founded in 1849 by Reverend Newton Pinckney Walker as a private school for deaf students. A school for the blind was added in 1855, and the institution became state funded in 1856. Originally segregated by race, it underwent integration in 1967. A School for the Multihandicapped was established in 1977, and the school expanded to offer outreach services beginning in the mid-1980s. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.