Seaside School

National Register Listing

Street Address:

1097 SC 174, Edisto Island, SC (Charleston County)

Alternate Name:

Seaside Colored School

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817710157

Description and Narrative:

(Seaside Colored School) Seaside School is historically significant for its association with the education of black Edistoians from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. At least one and sometimes two school buildings have been located on its site for over one hundred years, perhaps since 1865. The present structure, built ca. 1931, is architecturally significant as an example of a schoolhouse used by rural black South Carolinians into the 1950s. The school is a two-room frame building typical of those built throughout rural South Carolina from ca. 1910 until ca.1940. The rectangular building is one-story, on a low brick pier foundation, with a lateral gable roof of V-crimped metal and weatherboard exterior siding. Rafter ends are exposed at the main body and at the small shed porch protecting the paired entry doors. One original five-panel door remains. The school has been vacant since 1954, except for brief periods of residential tenant occupancy. Seaside School is said by many of the older residents of Edisto Island, black and white, to be the oldest black school on the island, and is one of only three remaining historic schools on Edisto Island, of at least eight that have been documented on the island in the twentieth century. Listed in the National Register June 17, 1994.

Period of Significance:

1931;1931 – 1944

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Ethnic Heritage: Black;Education

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

June 17 1994

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