Pell Hall

South Carolina · United States · Theatre

She was going out of a window in the early 1900s to elope. He swore he would catch her. He did not.

A student living in Pell Hall at this college in Spartanburg, South Carolina in the early 1900s arranged to climb out of a window at night and elope with her fiancé.

He promised he would catch her.

He did not.

A woman in a white dress is seen running on the campus.

No record supports it and no name attaches to her, which puts it with the great many American college legends built on the same frame: a young woman, a window, a man waiting below, and a promise that fails.

What those stories preserve is the world the students were in. Women's colleges of that period locked their halls, policed correspondence and forbade unsupervised visits, and eloping through a window was for some of them the only route to a marriage their families had not chosen.

The hall is student housing and is not open to visitors.

FAQ

Where is Pell Hall located?

Pell Hall is in South Carolina, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.

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