Winyah Indigo School
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Winyah School | |
Location | 1200 Highmarket St., Georgetown, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 33°22′22″N 79°17′11″W / 33.37278°N 79.28639°W |
Area | 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) |
Built | 1908 | , c. 1924
Architect | Wilson, Sompayrac & Urquhart; Et al. |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 88002386[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 3, 1988 |
Winyah School, also known as Winyah Graded and High School, Georgetown Graded & High School, and Old Winyah School, is a historic school building located at Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It consists of a 1908 Classical Revival style school building and auditorium, with an auditorium extension and high school addition built about 1924. It has a raised masonry and concrete foundation and low hipped roof.[2][3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
Winyah High School served white students while Howard High School served African American students. An arson attack damaged it in the 1980s. Integrated Georgetown High School replaced it and Howard High School.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Andrew E. Chandler and Sherry Piland (July 1988). "Winyah Indigo School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
- ^ "Winyah Indigo School, Georgetown County (1200 Highmarket St., Georgetown)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
- ^ Nesbit, Jeff (March 29, 2016). "Separate High Schools, Unequal Everything". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
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- Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
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