The Abbeville Press and Banner reported on July 4, 1889 – “The Greenwood Male High School is being established. The board of trustees has elected G.L. Wilson and R.B. Wilson of Gastonia to run the school which will open about the middle of September.”
The RH Herald reported on March 22, 1916 – “L.F. Waldrop has returned from Greenwood, where he was awarded the contract for heating the new high school building to be erected there.”
City Directories and History: Construction of the Old Greenwood High School in 1925-26 represented a major advancement in the history of education in Greenwood and Greenwood County. For the first time since the Greenwood Public School System was established in 1891, the upper grades and the grammar school were taught in separate buildings. The high school was built
primarily to accommodate the city’s rapidly growing student population, but it attracted students from the county as well. The Old Greenwood High School is a complex of three brick buildings – the main building, the auditorium, and the gymnasium – each of which is in the Georgian Revival style and form a Palladian configuration. Each of the three buildings has a monumental portico supported by six Tuscan columns. Stone is used for water tables, columns, quoins, decorative panels, fascias, window sills, and keystones. The school was a collaborative effort between Greenwood architect James C. Hemphill, senior architect Charles Coker Wilson, and the prominent Columbia firm of Wilson, Berryman and Kennedy. The main building was opened on September 22, 1926, although the auditorium building was not finished, and the grounds were not ready. Formal dedication of the buildings took place in January 1927. The complex was completed with construction of the gymnasium building in 1929-30. Listed in the National Register October 10, 1985.
(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
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