Cliffside Public School Explained

Cliffside Public School
Location:1 N. Main St., Cliffside, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.3386°N -81.8661°W
Built:, 1940-1941
Architect:Asbury, Louis Humbert, Sr.; Draper, Earle Sumner
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:January 26, 1998
Refnum:97001667

Cliffside Public School is a historic school complex located at Cliffside, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Louis H. Asbury (1877-1975) and built in 1920–1921. It is a two-story on basement, "T"-plan, Classical Revival style terra cotta tile building sheathed in glazed brick. The front facade features a tetrastyle two-story portico of Indiana limestone. The vocational and physical education building, erected by the Work Projects Administration in 1940–1941. Also on the property are the contributing series of fieldstone masonry structures built in 1940–1941.It sits on landscaped grounds designed by Earle Sumner Draper.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Davyd Foard Hood. Cliffside Public School. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d.. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.