Old Batesburg Grade School Explained

Old Batesburg Grade School
Location:338 W. Columbia Ave., Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina
Coordinates:33.9064°N -81.5396°W
Built:c., c. 1945
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:May 27, 1983
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:83002201

Old Batesburg Grade School, also known as Batesburg Elementary School, is a historic elementary school building located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1912, and is a two-story, brick Neo-Classical school building with a central tetrastyle portico and flanking pavilions. The central portico has four colossal Tuscan order columns. An auditorium is located at the rear of the building. Wing additions were added about 1945. It was the town's first public school, housing grades 1–11.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

As of 2015, the building was used as the administrative offices of Lexington County School District Three.

See also

Batesburg and Leesville schools built with the addition of the Rosenwald Fund

Notes and References

  1. Web site: unknown . Old Batesburg Grade School . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d. . June 15, 2014.
  2. Web site: Old Batesburg Grade School, Lexington County (306 E. Columbia Ave., Batesburg) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . June 15, 2014.