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Camp Academy

Coordinates: 35°39′22″N 82°42′52″W / 35.65611°N 82.71444°W / 35.65611; -82.71444
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Camp Academy
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Camp Academy is located in North Carolina
Camp Academy
Camp Academy is located in the United States
Camp Academy
LocationNC 63, near Leicester, North Carolina
Coordinates35°39′22″N 82°42′52″W / 35.65611°N 82.71444°W / 35.65611; -82.71444
Area1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built1897 (1897)
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Vernacular Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.85002421[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 19, 1985

Camp Academy, also known as Camp Forest, is a historic building located in Leicester, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Built in 1896/7 with funds collected by the local Methodist Episcopal community, it stands on a low ridge on New Leicester Highway at the southeast edge of the former Turkey Creek Meeting Campground, a famous revival campground meeting site which existed from the late 1700s until 1893.

The 4800 sq. ft. two-story, five-bay, vernacular Colonial Revival style brick building served the community as a private academy and teacher training institute from 1897 until 1913 when publicly funded education came to this section of Buncombe County. It later became an apartment house, and after 1983 a medical clinic. It operated as the Camp Forest hotel in the 1920s. It is the last remaining tuition academy building in the county.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Doug Swaim and Michael Hill (January 1985). "Camp Academy" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.