Wardlaw Junior High School, also known as Wardlaw Middle School, is a historic

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located at

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. It was built in 1926–1927, and is a three-story, rectangular brick structure with a central courtyard. It features

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window tracery, arched entrances with one-story porches, and decorative cast stone panels. It was the first junior high school building in South Carolina. It was added to the

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in 1984.

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