Randleman Graded School

Historic school building in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Randleman Graded School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Randleman Graded School (c. 1908)
35°49′6″N 79°48′22″W / 35.81833°N 79.80611°W / 35.81833; -79.80611
Area	2.2 acres (0.89 ha)
Built	1906 (1906), 1926, 1937
Built by	Henley, Mr.
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No.	05000326^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 20, 2005

Randleman Graded School, also known as Randleman High School and Shaw Furniture Industries Showroom, is a historic school building located at Randleman, Randolph County, North Carolina. It was built in 1906, and is a two-story brick building, five-bays wide and three bays deep, with a low-hipped roof and flanking hip-roofed two-bay wings added in 1926. The building is Romanesque Revival influenced and features a projecting entrance pavilion with a massive Richardsonian Romanesque-influenced arch. In 1937, an extension to the east wing was added. The building housed a school until 1960, then a furniture showroom until 2000.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Jeffrey S. Smith and Susannah Franklin Buss (February 2004). "Randleman Graded School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.