Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium

160 Ashwood School Rd., Bishopville, South Carolina. County/parish: Lee.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 25, 2011. NRIS 09000914.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium

Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium is a historic school gymnasium and auditorium located at Ashwood near Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1938 to serve Ashwood Plantation, the first and largest of the Resettlement Administration (RA) project tracts in South Carolina. The building served as the school and community gymnasium and as an auditorium for dramatic performances and films. It is a one-story building with a simplified Colonial Revival style popular in the 1930s in government-sponsored construction.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118998097

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