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Joyner Building

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Wilson & Wamack

Added to NRHP
  
8 December 1978

Built
  
1913 (1913)-1914

NRHP Reference #
  
78001961

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Location
  
Western Carolina University Campus, Cullowhee, North Carolina

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The Joyner Building was a historic classroom/administration building located on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, Jackson County, North Carolina. brick Colonial It was built in 1913-1914, and was a two-story on a raised basement, "T"-shaped red brick building with a cross-gab1e-on-hip roof. The main block was 11 bays wide and six bays deep.

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In 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was destroyed by fire in 1981, and the site is now the location of Joyner Plaza near the Moore Building.

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Uses

Joyner Building was destroyed by fire on January 15, 1981. It was about to undergo renovation. Built in 1913-1914, it had over the year housed classrooms, labs, administrative offices, the college post office, college shop, college library, and college book exchange for decades. At the time of the fire, it was the oldest building on campus and was being used as the home of the Western Carolinian (WCU's college newspaper), and as a meeting place for student organizations. The ruins were deemed a hazard and were knocked down the following week. The site is now Joyner Plaza. The oldest buildings on campus are now Moore (1917–1924) and the Steam Plant (1924)

References

Joyner Building Wikipedia