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Summerton High School
Historic school building in South Carolina, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Summerton High School | |
![]() Summerton High School, November 2012 | |
Location | S. Church St., Summerton, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 33°36′24″N 80°20′35″W |
Area | 1.8 acres (0.73 ha) |
Built | 1936 (1936) |
Architect | Wessigner, Jesse Walter; Stork, Robert Caughman |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals |
NRHP reference No. | 94001048[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 26, 1994 |
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]