Gray Court-Owings School is a historic

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building located at Gray Court,

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. The building consists of a two-story central brick building constructed in 1914, with a flanking one-story brick-veneered high school building and a one-story brick-veneered auditorium, both built in 1928. The flanking buildings are designed in the

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style with

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s. A two-story

portico was added to the entrance of the 1914 building in 1928. A contributing one-story frame potato house was built in the 1930s to help local farmers preserve their crops. It was added to the

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in 2004. Gray Court-Owings is the home of the Tigers who participate in both

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(7th and 8th grade)

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and

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in the Laurens District 55 school district.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina School buildings completed in 1928 Colonial Revival architecture in South Carolina Buildings and structures in Laurens County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Laurens County, South Carolina 1928 establishments in South Carolina {{LaurensCountySC-NRHP-stub