Hartsville Armory

Hartsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina.

Hartsville Armory
The building in August 2018
Location539 W. Carolina Ave., Hartsville, South Carolina
Coordinates34°22′9″N 80°5′6″W
Area1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built1939 (1939)-1940
ArchitectSingley, Heyward S.
Architectural styleModern Movement
MPSHartsville MPS
NRHP reference No.94001128[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1994

History

The armory was built in 1939–1940, by the Works Progress Administration and designed by architect Heyward S. Singley (1902–1959) of Columbia, South Carolina. It is a two-story, 21 bay wide, rectangular brick Art Moderne style building. It has a flat roof behind stepped and overlaid parapets with a rat-tooth corbeled course and cast stone coping.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. J. Tracy Power and Andrew W. Chandler (June 1994). "Hartsville Armory" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  3. "Hartsville Armory, Darlington County (539 W. Carolina Ave., Hartsville)". South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 17 March 2014.


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