Hopkins Graded School

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Jct. of CR 37 and CR 1412, Hopkins, SC (Richland County)

Alternate Name:

Old Hopkins School

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817740091

Description and Narrative:

(Old Hopkins School) Hopkins Graded School is significant as an intact small, rural, late nineteenth century school, a rapidly disappearing building type. In addition, the school is significant in the history of education in the Hopkins community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. According to local tradition, the Hopkins Graded School was constructed ca. 1897 as a one-teacher school serving the white children of the area. Because of a growing enrollment, before 1914 a new two-story school was built across the road. After that the Hopkins Graded School building was used as a teacherage with the principal and his family being the first occupants. The school is a rambling, one-story building that has a L-shaped, frame core with weatherboard siding and a gable roof. A cross-gabled block is on the east end of the building, and three small cross-gabled entrance vestibules are on the east, south, and west elevations. A small square belfry with a pyramidal roof is located on the roof ridge at the east end of the L, and two brick chimneys pierce the ridge of the north wing of the L. The roof has purlins and rafter tails extended to carry deep eaves; roofing is modern sheet metal. Listed in the National Register March 27, 1986.

Period of Significance:

circa 1897

Level of Significance:

State

Area of Significance:

Architecture;Education

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

March 27 1986

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