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(Redirected from Cliffside Public School (Cliffside, North Carolina)) Historic school building in North Carolina, United States For the primary school in Toronto, see Cliffside, Toronto § Education. United States historic place
Cliffside Public School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cliffside School, June 2013
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Location1 N. Main St., Cliffside, North Carolina
Coordinates35°20′19″N 81°51′58″W / 35.33861°N 81.86611°W / 35.33861; -81.86611
Area16 acres (6.5 ha)
Built1920 (1920), 1940-1941
ArchitectAsbury, Louis Humbert, Sr.; Draper, Earle Sumner
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.97001667
Added to NRHPJanuary 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.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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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