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Academy of Richmond County—1926 Campus
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The Academy of Richmond County—1926 Campus is a fine example of the use of Academic Gothic style for a 1926 city high school. The school on its 30-acre campus reflects what one expected a school to look like at the time. Its impressive main building has design links to the past and to other academic institutions, mainly colleges. Constructed to replace the previous Academy of Richmond County on Telfair Street, the main building retains much of its original material and form with its Gothic detailing, pointed-arch entrance portals, corner buttresses, contrasting materials, and brick patterning. It was an important work of the local Augusta-based architectural firm Scroggs and Ewing. The architecturally significant 1950s additions to the school are in the Modern or International style. Major George Butler, the principal from 1909-27, described the school in 1927 as “second to no high school in the South in terms of facilities.”
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