Burroughs School - Conway, South Carolina
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BruceS
N 33° 50.534 W 079° 03.081
17S E 680298 N 3746371
Historic school building in Conway, South Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM2J1N
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/09/2007
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"The Burroughs School is significant in the early history of education in
Horry County and as a community center and local landmark in Conway. Burroughs
School was constructed in three phases between 1905 and 1923. Architects who
worked on this building during this period included Henry Emil Bonitz of
Wilmington, NC and Charles Coker Wilson of Columbia. The two-story, brick
building, which reveals the influences of the Georgian (or Colonial) Revival and
Neoclassical styles, is the oldest remaining public school building in Horry
County. The earliest central portion of the building, constructed in 1905 as an
elementary school, was designed by Henry E. Bonitz. The façade of this section
has three main portions of eleven bays. The three-bay central portion is
recessed behind the other two and features a one-story, hip roof porch supported
by six Ionic columns with Scamozzi capitals. Flanking the central portion are
hipped roof sections featuring a watertable and windows with radiating voussoirs,
keystone architrave, and lug sills on each story. About 1915 a two-story hipped
classroom wing was added to the building, with features matching the 1905
building. In 1923 four classrooms and an auditorium with Neoclassical motifs,
designed by Charles Coker Wilson, was added to the complex. The auditorium is
connected to the main school by a recessed two-story brick concourse and
stairwell. The auditorium features a projecting central pavilion with a
pedimented gable, two-story brick pilasters, and a slate-covered hip roof. The
complex also contains later additions and buildings dating from ca. 1935 to ca.
1950. Listed in the National Register August 2, 1984." ~
South Carolina Department of Archives and History website