Pleasant Retreat Academy
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Pleasant Retreat Academy | |
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Pleasant Retreat Academy, September 2014 | |
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| Location | 129 E. Pine St., Lincolnton, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°WCoordinates: 35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1817-1820 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| Governing body | Private |
| NRHP Reference # | 75001277[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 29, 1975 |
Pleasant Retreat Academy, also known as Confederate Memorial Hall, is a historic school building located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built between 1817 to 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 Academy remained in operation until about 1878. Among the students educated at Pleasant Retreat Academy were James Pinckney Henderson, governor and United States senator from Texas; William Alexander Graham, governor, two-term United States senator, and secretary of the Navy; Robert F. Hoke, Confederate general, and M. Hoke Smith United States senator from Georgia and secretary of the Interior. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965. The building now serves as a local museum.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ 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 2015-02-01.
