WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 7 -- Winston-Salem State University issued the following news release:
Winston-Salem State University has received a $749,700 grant from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund for historically Black colleges and universities to renovate the S.G. Atkins House.
Named after WSSU's founder and first president, Simon Green Atkins Jr., the two-story white frame house was built in 1893 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Located on Alumni Drive on WSSU's campus and currently occupied by the Office of Alumni Affairs, the house was Atkins' former residence and is a physical link to the origins of WSSU and the development of Columbia Heights, an early Black middle-class neighbor...