Summerfield School Gymnasium and Community Center, also known as Summerfield Rock Gym, is a historic gymnasium building located at Summerfield, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was built in 1938-1939 as part of a

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

(WPA) project at a rural consolidated high school. It is a 1 1/2-story, Rustic Revival-style

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

rubble stone building. It has a small concrete-block rear addition dated to about 1955. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2012.

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Works Progress Administration in North Carolina Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Sports venues on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina School buildings completed in 1939 Buildings and structures in Guilford County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Guilford County, North Carolina 1939 establishments in North Carolina {{GuilfordCountyNC-NRHP-stub