Bingham School

Bingham School
Headmaster's home, Bingham School, March 2007
Location NC 54 and SR 1007, Oaks, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°57′13″N 79°15′16″W / 35.95361°N 79.25444°WCoordinates: 35°57′13″N 79°15′16″W / 35.95361°N 79.25444°W
Area 10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built 1845
Architectural style Greek Revival
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 78001969[1]
Added to NRHP January 18, 1978

Bingham School is a historic school complex located at Oaks, Orange County, North Carolina. The complex includes a large, expansive, multi-stage headmaster's house, a contemporary smokehouse and well house. The oldest section of the house is a log structure that forms the rear ell and dates to the early-19th century. Attached to it is a frame addition. The front section of the house, is a two-story Greek Revival style, three bay by two bay, frame block dated to about 1845. The rear of the house features a colonnaded porch with Doric order columns that carries along the rear of the two-story section and the front of the ell. The school operated at this location from about 1845 to near the end of the American Civil War.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. Catherin W. Bishir and Diane Lea (n.d.). "Bingham School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.