Warrenville Elementary School Explained

Warrenville Elementary School
Location:115 Timmerman St., Warrenville, South Carolina
Map Alt:map of South Carolina
Coordinates:33.5481°N -81.8067°W
Built:1925
Architect:Simmons, William Walter & Son
Architecture:Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements
Added:May 22, 2002
Refnum:02000560

Warrenville Elementary School, originally known as Warrenville Graded School, was constructed in 1925 and used to educate mill village children located in and around the Warrenville, South Carolina area.[1] [2] In 1954, two wings were added to the building. This Aiken County, South Carolina school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2002.

William W. Simmons & Son are the architects who designed the school and six others in Aiken County, and have been described as "an obscure architecture firm working out of Augusta, Georgia during the 1920s and active until 1951."[2] W.W. Simmons also designed the NRHP-listed Lyons Woman's Club House in Lyons, Georgia.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drucker . Lesley M. . Warrenville Elementary School . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 30, 2001 . 27 November 2012.
  2. Web site: Warrenville Elementary School, Aiken County (115 Timmerman St., Warrenville) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 27 November 2012.