Cliffside Public School

Cliffside Public School

Cliffside School, June 2013
Location 1 N. Main St., Cliffside, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°20′19″N 81°51′58″W / 35.33861°N 81.86611°W / 35.33861; -81.86611Coordinates: 35°20′19″N 81°51′58″W / 35.33861°N 81.86611°W / 35.33861; -81.86611
Area 16 acres (6.5 ha)
Built 1920 (1920), 1940-1941
Architect Asbury, Louis Humbert, Sr.; Draper, Earle Sumner
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 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 noted 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

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 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.


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