Hartsville Armory Explained

Hartsville Armory
Location:539 W. Carolina Ave., Hartsville, South Carolina
Coordinates:34.3692°N -80.085°W
Built:-1940
Architect:Singley, Heyward S.
Architecture:Modern Movement
Added:September 8, 1994
Refnum:94001128

Hartsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina.

History

The armory was built in 1939 - 1940, by the Works Progress Administration and designed by architect Heyward S. Singley (1902 - 1959) of Columbia, South Carolina. It is a two-story, 21 bay wide, rectangular brick Art Moderne style building. It has a flat roof behind stepped and overlaid parapets with a rat-tooth corbeled course and cast stone coping.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: J. Tracy Power and Andrew W. Chandler . Hartsville Armory. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1994. 17 March 2014.
  2. Web site: Hartsville Armory, Darlington County (539 W. Carolina Ave., Hartsville). South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 17 March 2014.