This eight-story, high-rise residence hall was named for former S.C. Governor John Peter Richardson Jr., who served the state from 1886-90. He secured the establishment of Winthrop Training School scholarships by each South Carolina county. He also recommended that Winthrop became a state college for women, an idea that became a reality in 1891. Richardson was originally a hall for women, but in 1979, five years after Winthrop became coed, it became a men's hall.

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