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Cliffside Public School

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Built
  
1920 (1920), 1940-1941

Area
  
6 ha

Added to NRHP
  
26 January 1998

NRHP Reference #
  
97001667

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Cliffside Public School

Location
  
1 N. Main St., Cliffside, North Carolina

Cliffside public school top 5 facts


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.

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

References

Cliffside Public School Wikipedia