Mount Olive High School (North Carolina)

Mount Olive High School
Location 100 Wooten St., Mount Olive, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°12′1″N 78°4′23″W / 35.20028°N 78.07306°W / 35.20028; -78.07306Coordinates: 35°12′1″N 78°4′23″W / 35.20028°N 78.07306°W / 35.20028; -78.07306
Area 2.2 acres (0.89 ha)
Built 1925 (1925)
Architect B.R. Lucas, John David Gullett
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 98001266[1]
Added to NRHP October 22, 1998

Mount Olive High School is a historic former high school building located at Mount Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, "T"-shaped, multicolored tapestry brick school building in the Classical Revival style. It features terra cotta and cast stone exterior details and arched doorways and windows. A two-room brick cafeteria addition was made in 1945-1946. It housed Mount Olive Junior High from 1965 to 1979, after construction of the Southern Wayne High School.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1] It is located in the Mount Olive Historic District.

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Penne Smith (May 1998). "Mount Olive High School (Former)" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-07-01.


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