Bingham School is a historic school complex located at Oaks, Orange County, North Carolina. The complex includes a large, expansive, multi-stage headmaster's house, a contemporary smokehouse and well house. The oldest section of the house is a log structure that forms the rear ell and dates to the early 19th century. Attached to it is a frame addition. The front section of the house, is a two-story Greek Revival style, three bay by two bay, frame block dated to about 1845. The rear of the house features a colonnaded porch with Doric order columns that carries along the rear of the two-story section and the front of the ell. The school operated at this location from about 1845 to near the end of the American Civil War.[2]

Bingham School
Headmaster's home, Bingham School, March 2007
Bingham School is located in North Carolina
Bingham School
Bingham School is located in the United States
Bingham School
LocationNC 54 and SR 1007, Oaks, North Carolina
Coordinates35°57′13″N 79°15′16″W / 35.95361°N 79.25444°W / 35.95361; -79.25444
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1845 (1845)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.78001969[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 18, 1978

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Catherin W. Bishir and Diane Lea (n.d.). "Bingham School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.