Cliffside Public School
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![]() Cliffside School, June 2013
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Location | 1 N. Main St., Cliffside, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°20′19″N 81°51′58″W / 35.33861°N 81.86611°WCoordinates: 35°20′19″N 81°51′58″W / 35.33861°N 81.86611°W |
Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
Built | 1920 | , 1940-1941
Architect | Asbury, Louis Humbert, Sr.; Draper, Earle Sumner |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
NRHP reference # | 97001667 |
Added to NRHP | January 26, 1998 |
Cliffside Public School is a historic school complex located at Cliffside, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted 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.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.