Central Elementary School is a pair of historic school buildings in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. The First New Bern Academy is located on New Street and was built about 1806. It is a two-story, brick building with a hipped roof and two interior ridge chimneys. It features a semicircular tetrastyle entrance porch with Tuscan order columns and a roof cupola. It has a rear addition dated to the late-19th century. The Second New Bern Academy was built in 1884 to replace the previous building.[2] The buildings retained their educational functions until 1971. The 1806 building now houses a museum, while the 1884 building has been converted into apartments.[3]
Central Elementary School | |
 The first academy building, September 2012 | |
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| Location | 311-313 New St. and 517 Hancock St., New Bern, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°06′37″N 77°02′29″W / 35.1103°N 77.0415°W |
| Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
| Built | 1806 |
| Architect | James Coor, Mr. Carroll |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000938[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 20, 1972 |
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The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Survey Planning Unit Staff (July 1971). "Central Elementary School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ^ Farmer, Vina Hutchinson (2007). New Bern. Arcadia Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 9780738552729. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
External links
edit- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-280, "First Academy, New Street at Hancock, New Bern, Craven County, NC", 2 photos