Parker High School Auditorium

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1938 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Parker High School Auditorium is a historic high school auditorium located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1938 with funding provided by the Works Progress Administration.”
Wikipedia article Parker High School Auditorium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1938, Neoclassical architecture · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 900 Woodside Ave., City View, 29601
When was it listed? February 1996
Category. building
Census division. Greenville
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 96000144 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Parker High School Auditorium between 1992 and 2018, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Parker High School Auditorium: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Edgcomb Steel--Greenville, S.C.	Iron, Aluminum	Producer
Greenville Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Saluda Lake Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
Boling Mine	Mica	Past Producer
C H Ellis Prospect	Mica	Prospect
G F Fuller Deposit	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Borden Ice Cream Factory	0.5 miles	2023
Hampton-Pinckney Historic District Extension	0.5 miles	1982
Hampton-Pinckney Historic District	0.6 miles	1977
Earle Town House	0.6 miles	1969
Monaghan Mill	0.7 miles	2005
First National Bank	0.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000144 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenville County	All 97 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.