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The Withers Building, also known as the Winthrop Training School or W.T.S., is an historic building complex located at 611 Myrtle Drive on the campus... of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The complex consists of three parts: the old Presbyterian High School, the Main Classroom - Office Building and the new Gymnasium. The old two-story Presbyterian High School was built in 1891 and bought in 1910 by the state for what was then Winthrop College: The South Carolina College for Women to be used as its teacher training school. The three story E-shaped plan Main Classroom - Office Building with a central four-story tower was built in 1912-1913 and designed in the redbrick Gothic Revival style by the noted Atlanta based architect William Augustus Edwards of the firm of Edwards and Sayward. This is the most architecturally significant part of the complex. The new Gymnasium building was built in 1952 and designed by G. Thomas Harmon of Columbia to replace the old gymnasium which had been on the fourth floor of the tower. In 1960 the Winthrop Training School was named the Withers Building to honor Sarah Withers a graduate of the college and a former principal of the school.
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Leon Rippy is an American actor. He has worked with Roland Emmerich on seven movies including: Moon 44 , Eye of the Storm , Universal Soldier ,... Stargate , The Thirteenth Floor , The Patriot , Eight Legged Freaks and also had a role in the 2004 film The Alamo. Television appearances include a guest role on Star Trek: The Next Generation , Quantum Leap, Walker, Texas Ranger, Leverage, Six Feet Under and as Tom Nuttall on the HBO series Deadwood. Rippy had a co-starring role in the TNT crime drama series, Saving Grace. He has also appeared in North and South as Sanders. He is currently appearing in Alcatraz as Dr. Beauregard.
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South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina; to the south and west by Georgia, located across the Savannah River; and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence from the British Crown during the American Revolution. The colony was originally named by King Charles... II of England in honor of his father Charles I . South Carolina later became the first state to vote to secede from the Union. South Carolina is the 40th most extensive and the 24th most populous of the 50 United States. South Carolina comprises 46 counties. The capital and largest city of the state is Columbia. South Carolina is composed of five geographic areas, or physiographic provinces, whose boundaries roughly parallel the Atlantic coastline. In the southeast part of the state is the Coastal Plain, which can be divided into the Outer and Inner Coastal Plains.
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