Riley Hill School Explained

Riley Hill School
Location:NC 2320, 0.2 miles (0.32 km) east of NC 2318, near Wendell, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.8594°N -78.4164°W
Built:1928
Builder:Strickland Brothers
Architecture:Colonial Revival
Added:April 25, 2001
Refnum:01000415

Riley Hill School is a historic Rosenwald School building located in Wendell, North Carolina, a town in eastern Wake County. It was built in 1928, and is a one-story, brick building with an H-shaped plan. The five-bay original section has a one-story porch with simple Doric order columns in the Colonial Revival style. The school closed its doors in 1970, but was purchased in 1991 by the Riley Hill Baptist Church. It caught fire on September 25, 2020. Much of the structure was damaged.[1]

In April 2001, Riley Hill School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nancy Van Dolsen . Riley Hill School. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 2000 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-05-01.