- Withers Building
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location=Rock Hill, South Carolina
lat_degrees = 34
lat_minutes = 50
lat_seconds = 28
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 81
long_minutes = 1
long_seconds = 42
long_direction = W
locmapin = South Carolina
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built =1891, 1912-1913
architect= 1891, unknown; 1912-1916,William Augustus Edwards of Edwards & Sayward
architecture=Gothic Revival
added =August 20 ,1981
governing_body = State
refnum=81000571cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Withers Building, also known as the Winthrop Training School or W.T.S., is an historic building complex located at 611 Myrtle Drive on the campus ofWinthrop University in Rock Hill,South Carolina . The complex consists of three parts: the old Presbyterian High School, the Main Classroom - Office Building and the new Gymnasium.The old two-story Presbyterian High School was built in 1891 and bought in 1910 by the state for what was then "Winthrop College: The South Carolina College for Women" to be used as its teacher training school.
The three story E-shaped plan Main Classroom - Office Building with a central four-story tower was built in 1912-1913 and designed in the redbrick
Gothic Revival style by the notedAtlanta based architectWilliam Augustus Edwards of the firm of Edwards and Sayward. This is the most architecturally significant part of the complex.The new Gymnasium building was built in 1952 and designed by G. Thomas Harmon of Columbia to replace the old gymnasium which had been on the fourth floor of the tower.
In 1960 the Winthrop Training School was named the Withers Building to honor Sarah Withers a graduate of the college and a former principal of the school.
On
August 20 ,1981 , the Withers Building was added to theNational Register of Historic Places . [ [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/york/S10817746014/index.htm South Carolina Department of History abd Archives page on the Withers Building] ] [ [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/york/S10817746014/S10817746014.pdf National Register Nomination Form fo the Withers Building] ]ee also
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List of Registered Historic Places in South Carolina References
External links
* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/york/S10817746014/index.htm South Carolina Department of History abd Archives page on the Withers Building]
* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/york/S10817746014/S10817746014.pdf National Register Nomination Form fo the Withers Building]
* [https://www.winthrop.edu/tour/withers.htm Winthrop Tour: Withers/W.T.S.]
* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Winthrop+College,+Withers+Building,+Oakland+Avenue,+Rock+Hill,+York+County,+SC)) Historic American Buildings Survey on Withers Building]
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