Orange Street School Explained

Orange Street School
Location:500 blk. of Orange St., jct. of Orange and Chance Sts., Fayetteville, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.0639°N -78.8803°W
Builder:Waddell, James
Architecture:Classical Revival, Utilitarian Industrial
Added:September 22, 1987
Refnum:87001597

Orange Street School is a historic school building located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1915 for African-American students, and is a two-story, approximately square brick building, three bays wide and three bays deep, with Neoclassical style detailing. It was the original home of E. E. Smith High School from 1927 to 1929 and 1931 to 1940.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Oswald . Ruth Little . Jim Sumner . amp . Orange Street School. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . January 1987. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.