Summerton High School

Historic school building in South Carolina, United States
United States historic place
Summerton High School
Summerton High School, November 2012
33°36′24″N 80°20′35″W / 33.60667°N 80.34306°W / 33.60667; -80.34306
Area1.8 acres (0.73 ha)
Built1936 (1936)
ArchitectWessigner, Jesse Walter; Stork, Robert Caughman
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No.94001048[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 26, 1994

Summerton High School, also known as Summerton Middle School, is a historic school building located at Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story hip roofed, rectangular brick building. It has a central pavilion featuring a pedimented gable, supported by four cast stone plasters. Summerton High School is the only school still standing of the five schools in Clarendon County School District #22 that were associated with Briggs v. Elliott, the South Carolina case which was one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education.[2][3] As of 2022 the building is used as administrative offices for Clarendon County School District #1.

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1] In 2022 it and the former Scott’s Branch High School were designated part of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Summerton High School, Clarendon County (S. Church St., Summerton)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ^ J. Tracy Power and Andrew W. Chandler (July 1994). "Summerton High School". National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  4. ^ "President Biden Signs Law to Expand and Redesignate Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park". U.S. Department of the Interior. 2022-05-12. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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