Archer School (220 Nassau Street)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Archer School (1937): Origformat: Document/Photocopy; Resolution: 200 dpi
Archer School (1937)

Origformat: Document/Photocopy; Resolution: 200 dpi

Name/Title

Archer School (220 Nassau Street)

Entry/Object ID

NASSAU.220.1

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Further research

Scope and Content

Designed by Albert Simons, the Henry P. Archer School was built in 1934, and then expanded almost immediately in 1936 to add classroom and auditorium spaces, and again expanded in 1961 adding a much-needed cafeteria and covered walkways. Over the years the facility provided both an educational and a meeting place for the immediate neighborhood. Following its official closure in 1980 it became a temporary relocation facility for various schools (and other school-related functions) during renovation and new construction of those facilities. (Condition Assessment.) File contains adaptive re-use "Existing Facilities Preliminary Condition Assessment" (2018); newspaper articles (including DYKYC 1937); brief excerpt from thesis (Blevins, 2001); Sanborn Maps (1944, 1951, 1955); photocopy of architectural drawings.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

NASSAU.220.

Lexicon

Search Terms

Nassau Street, East Side, Adaptive reuse, Henry P. Archer Elementary School, African American schools--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Finding Aids: Index to Property Files Level of Description: Item

Location

Location

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Tag Date: 2010-10-28 12:41:07

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

June 4, 2021

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

May 24, 2023