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Hartsville Community Center Facade	Hartsville Community Center Facade Detail	Hartsville Community Market Facade	Hartsville Community Market Left Oblique	Hartsville Community Market Right Oblique

The Hartsville Community Center complex, consisting of the Hartsville Community Center and the adjacent Hartsville Community Market, is significant both as an excellent example of Art Deco architecture in the state and for its association with New Deal era public projects in South Carolina during the 1930s. The Community Center and Community Market were built in 1935-36 utilizing federal loans from the Public Works Administration. The buildings were designed by architects Lafaye and Lafaye of Columbia, and built by contractors Wheatley and Mobley of Augusta, Georgia. The Hartsville Community Center is a two-story, rectangular plan building with a flat roof and parapet. The building is clad with running bond, red brick and decorative cast-stone trim. The five bay symmetrical façade features reeded pilasters with stylized capitals and a central entry bay. The entry bay has cast-stone cladding, pilasters, a pedimented parapet with stylized motifs, and a streamline marquee. The Community Market is a two-story, rectangular plan building with a flat roof and parapet. The building has a common bond, red brick cladding and cast stone trim. Three stepped planes invigorate the five bay asymmetrical façade. The façade features brick pilasters with stylized cast-stone capitals. The building has a central primary entrance set within a cast-stone surround. Listed in the National Register June 4, 1997.

View the complete text of the nomination form for this National Register property. In addition, the Historic Resources of Hartsville, ca. 1817-ca. 1941 includes historical background information for this and other related National Register properties.

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