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Pleasant Retreat Academy

Historic school building in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Pleasant Retreat Academy
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Pleasant Retreat Academy, September 2014
35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°W / 35.47222; -81.25611
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1817 (1817)-1820
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	75001277^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1975

Pleasant Retreat Academy is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina.^[2]

History

Pleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained Federal-style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

Former pupils

William Graham (1804–1875), American politician
James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician
Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate States Army general
Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Robert Topkins and Charles Greer Suttlemyre, Jr. (March 1975). "Pleasant Retreat Academy" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places–Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 6, 2016.