Pleasant Retreat Academy is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina.[2]
Pleasant Retreat Academy | |
Location | 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°W |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
Built | 1817 | -1820
Architectural style | Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 75001277[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 29, 1975 |
History
editPleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained Federal-style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
Former pupils
edit- William Graham (1804–1875), American politician
- James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician
- Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate States Army general
- Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Robert Topkins and Charles Greer Suttlemyre, Jr. (March 1975). "Pleasant Retreat Academy" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places–Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
Further reading
edit- Address by Alfred Nixon, Esq (Speech). Dedication of The Confederate Memorial Hall. Lincolnton, N.C.: Southern Stars Chapter, U. D. C. August 27, 1908. Retrieved March 6, 2016 – via News Print.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Pleasant Retreat Academy.
- Historic Schools of the Charlotte Region at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Urban Institute