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Orange Street School

Coordinates: 35°3′50″N 78°52′49″W / 35.06389°N 78.88028°W / 35.06389; -78.88028
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Orange Street School
Orange Street School is located in North Carolina
Orange Street School
Orange Street School is located in the United States
Orange Street School
Location500 blk. of Orange St., jct. of Orange and Chance Sts., Fayetteville, North Carolina
Coordinates35°3′50″N 78°52′49″W / 35.06389°N 78.88028°W / 35.06389; -78.88028
Area1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built1915 (1915)
Built byWaddell, James
Architectural styleClassical Revival, Utilitarian Industrial
NRHP reference No.87001597[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1987

Orange Street School is a historic school building located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1915 for African-American students, and is a two-story, approximately square brick building, three bays wide and three bays deep, with Neoclassical style detailing. It was the original home of E. E. Smith High School from 1927 to 1929 and 1931 to 1940.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[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. ^ Virginia Oswald; Ruth Little & Jim Sumner (January 1987). "Orange Street School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.