“W” is for Wilson, Charles Coker (1864-1933)

“W” is for Wilson, Charles Coker (1864-1933). Architect. A native of Hartsville, Wilson graduated from the South Carolina College and later studied at the Ècole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He established a practice in Columbia and over the next quarter century   (with several partners), he was responsible for numerous buildings throughout the state. Among these buildings were Davis and LeConte Colleges at the University of South Carolina, Neville Hall at Presbyterian College, and Tuomey Hospital in Sumter. Wilson was arguably the state’s most significant and influential early twentieth-century architect. From 1917 to 1933 he served as the chairman of South Carolina’s Board of Architectural Examiners and helped draft the state’s first building codes. In 1914 Charles Coker Wilson became the first twentieth-century South Carolinian to be named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.