Gray Court-Owings School

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Gray Court-Owings School
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Gray Court-Owings School, February 2012
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Location9210 SC 14, Gray Court, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°37′11″N82°07′22″W / 34.6197°N 82.1228°W / 34.6197; -82.1228 Coordinates: 34°37′11″N82°07′22″W / 34.6197°N 82.1228°W / 34.6197; -82.1228
Area7.2 acres (2.9 ha)
Built1914 (1914), 1928
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 04000354 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 21, 2004

Gray Court-Owings School is a historic school building located at Gray Court, Laurens County, South Carolina. The building consists of a two-story central brick building constructed in 1914, with a flanking one-story brick-veneered high school building and a one-story brick-veneered auditorium, both built in 1928. The flanking buildings are designed in the Colonial Revival style with Tuscan order porticos. A two-story Tuscan order portico was added to the entrance of the 1914 building in 1928. A contributing one-story frame potato house was built in the 1930s to help local farmers preserve their crops. [2] [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

Gray Court-Owings is the home of the Tigers who participate in both junior high (7th and 8th grade) football and basketball in the Laurens District 55 school district.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Culbertson, Dianne (May 2003). "Gray Court-Owings School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  3. "Gray Court-Owings School, Laurens County (9201 S.C. Hwy. 14, Gray Court)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 12, 2014.