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Library and Laboratory Building Henderson Institute

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Area
  
less than one acre

Added to NRHP
  
29 November 1995

NRHP Reference #
  
95001399

Library and Laboratory Building-Henderson Institute

Location
  
629 W. Rock Spring St., Henderson, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

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Library and Laboratory Building-Henderson Institute is a historic school building located at Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina. It was built in 1928, and is a plain, two-story brick building with Colonial Revival style design elements. It is the only surviving reminder of the Henderson Institute that was established in the town of Henderson in Vance County in 1887. The Henderson Institute was established by the Freedmen's Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church of North America to provide secondary education for African-Americans. The building houses the Henderson Institute Historical Museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

References

Library and Laboratory Building-Henderson Institute Wikipedia