Old Batesburg-Leesville High School

Old Batesburg-Leesville High School

Old Batesburg-Leesville High School, August 2012
Location Columbia Ave at Shealy Rd, Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina
Coordinates 33°54′41″N 81°31′47″W / 33.9114°N 81.5297°W / 33.9114; -81.5297Coordinates: 33°54′41″N 81°31′47″W / 33.9114°N 81.5297°W / 33.9114; -81.5297
Area less than one acre
Built 1920 (1920)
Built by Scruggs & Ewing; Palmer-Spivey Co.
Architectural style Tudor Revival
MPS Batesburg-Leesville MRA
NRHP Reference # 82003893[1]
Added to NRHP July 6, 1982

Old Batesburg-Leesville High School, also known as Batesburg-Leesville Middle School, was a historic high school building located in Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story, red brick school building on a raised basement in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. It features a low parapet roof banded in concrete, flanking pavilions, and a Tudor arched entranceway.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

The building is slated for demolition in August 2017.

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. unknown (n.d.). "Old Batesburg-Leesville High School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. "Old Batesburg-Leesville High School, Lexington County (Columbia Ave., Leesville)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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