Sweet Briar Dr., .5 mi. W of US 29, Amherst, Virginia. County/parish: Amherst.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 30, 1995. NRIS 95000240.
22 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar, SBC) is a private women's liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Amherst County, Virginia. It was established in 1901 by Indiana Fletcher Williams in memory of her deceased daughter, Daisy. The college formally opened its doors in 1906 and granted the B.A. degree for the first time in 1910. It nearly closed in 2015 but was saved by donations and legal actions by alumnae.
Sweet Briar is known for its campus with its historic Georgian Revival architecture by Ralph Adams Cram and its 3,250 acres (13.2 km2) of hills, forests, and fields.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679515