Old Greenwood High School
Also known as: Greenwood High School
857 S. Main St., Greenwood, South Carolina
857 S. Main St., Greenwood, South Carolina
Historic school in Greenwood, SC
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Description
Construction of the Old Greenwood High School in 1925-26 represented a major advancement in the history of education in Greenwood and Greenwood County. For the first time since the Greenwood Public School System was established in 1891, the upper grades and the grammar school were taught in separate buildings. The high school was built primarily to accommodate the city’s rapidly growing student population, but it attracted students from the county as well. The Old Greenwood High School is a complex of three brick buildings – the main building, the auditorium, and the gymnasium – each of which is in the Georgian Revival style and form a Palladian configuration. Each of the three buildings has a monumental portico supported by six Tuscan columns. Stone is used for water tables, columns, quoins, decorative panels, fascias, window sills, and keystones. The school was a collaborative effort between Greenwood architect James C. Hemphill, senior architect Charles Coker Wilson, and the prominent Columbia firm of Wilson, Berryman and Kennedy. The main building was opened on September 22, 1926, although the auditorium building was not finished, and the grounds were not ready. Formal dedication of the buildings took place in January 1927. The complex was completed with construction of the gymnasium building in 1929-30. Listed in the National Register October 10, 1985.National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1985
- Reference number
- 85003120
- Architectural style
- Other architectural type; Georgian Revival
- Areas of significance
- Education; Architecture
- Level of significance
- Local
- Evaluation criteria
- A - Event; C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic function
- School
- Period of significance
- 1925-1949
- Significant years
- 1925; 1926; 1929
- Number of properties
- Contributing buildings: 3
Update Log
- September 15, 2014: Updated by Michael Miller: Added "Description"
- November 4, 2013: Updated by Michael Miller: Added "Description" & "Overview", Updated "GPS Coordinates"
- November 4, 2013: New photo from Michael Miller
Sources
- Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History
- National Register database - Reference number 85003120 (Search for documents)
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