Estey Hall (1874), Shaw University, Raleigh. The philosophy of uplift and a commitment to black self-help took firm root in nearly a dozen black colleges founded in North Carolina after the Civil War. Each of the colleges established early a close relationship with northern patrons who nurtured and sustained the schools well into the twentieth century. Estey Hall at Shaw, a handsome dormitory for girls that made possible the "Christian education" of women at the Baptist college, was funded in 1870 by a family from Vermont.

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