Gastonia High School Explained

Gastonia High School
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Location:S. York St., Gastonia, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.2528°N -81.1886°W
Built:-1924
Architect:White, Hugh, Sr.
Architecture:Tudor Revival
Added:March 17, 1983
Refnum:83001884

Gastonia High School is a historic high school building located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was designed by Hugh Edward White and built in 1922–1924. It is a five-story, heavily ornamented E-shaped Tudor Revival style red brick school. It has a flat roof with parapet and features a four-bay projecting frontispiece and two-story, elegantly finished, auditorium. It has a six bays long and three bays wide addition built in 1955.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the York-Chester Historic District.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mary Alice Dixon Hinson . Tony L. Gray . Jerry Cross . Gastonia High School. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d.. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.