Cliffside Public School
Cliffside Public School | |
 Cliffside School, June 2013 | |
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| Location | 1 N. Main St., Cliffside, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°20′19″N 81°51′58″W / 35.33861°N 81.86611°W |
| Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
| Built | 1920, 1940-1941 |
| Architect | Asbury, Louis Humbert, Sr.; Draper, Earle Sumner |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 97001667[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 26, 1998 |
Cliffside Public School is a historic school complex located at Cliffside, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Louis H. Asbury (1877-1975) and built in 1920–1921. It is a two-story on basement, "T"-plan, Classical Revival style terra cotta tile building sheathed in glazed brick. The front facade features a tetrastyle two-story portico of Indiana limestone. The vocational and physical education building, erected by the Work Projects Administration in 1940–1941. Also on the property are the contributing series of fieldstone masonry structures built in 1940–1941.It sits on landscaped grounds designed by Earle Sumner Draper.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Davyd Foard Hood (n.d.). "Cliffside Public School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
Categories:
- Works Progress Administration in North Carolina
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina
- School buildings completed in 1920
- Buildings and structures in Rutherford County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Rutherford County, North Carolina
- 1920 establishments in North Carolina
- Western North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs