Summerton High School

Summerton High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Summerton High School, November 2012
Location	S. Church St., Summerton, South Carolina
Coordinates	33°36′24″N 80°20′35″W / 33.60667°N 80.34306°WCoordinates: 33°36′24″N 80°20′35″W / 33.60667°N 80.34306°W
Area	1.8 acres (0.73 ha)
Built	1936
Architect	Wessigner, Jesse Walter; Stork, Robert Caughman
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP Reference #	94001048[1]
Added to NRHP	August 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 helped form the basis for Brown v. Board of Education.^[2][3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
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" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.