Greenville Public School Complex
101 Butler Circle, Greenville, ALButler County High School (now an elementary school) was constructed in 1925. An addition was made to the building in 1927. This addition was to the east wing and consisted of a hall and two classrooms. This made the U-shaped building more symmetrical because the west wing was longer than the east wing prior to construction. During 1937 and 1938 the P.W.A. constructed a large auditorium, cafeteria, and manual arts training building at the cost of $75,000 to the high school.
The elementary school was named in honor of Walter 0. Parmer a Greenville native who lived in Nashville, Tennessee, and donated $500,000 to a trust fund for Butler County Schools. The plans for the building were submitted to the Greenville School Board in 1925 by J. W. Cooper of the Okel and Cooper architectural firm in Montgomery. Construction on the school, using Cooper's plans under the direction of Dolph Owens, did not begin, however, until 1927. The completed building had nine large classrooms, a library, and a large auditorium as well as office spaces. The auditorium occupies the central part of the building and has a twenty-foot high ceiling that gives the central portion of the building a two-story appearance. In 1936, the Public Works Administration constructed a $9,000 classroom addition to the structure.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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