Ahoskie is a town in Hertford County, North Carolina. The population was 5,039 at the 2010 census. Ahoskie is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. Its nickname is "The Only One" because no other town in the world is known by the same name. The origin of the word Ahoskie, which was originally spelled "Ahotsky," came from the Wyanoke Indians who entered the Hertford County area at the beginning of European settlement.
Princeville School, also known as Princeville Graded Colored School, is a historic school for African-American students located at Princeville, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built between 1935 and 1940, and is a one-story weatherboarded building, eleven bays wide and two rooms deep, with a recessed front-gable center entrance. It sits on a high brick pier foundation and has a hipped roof. The school closed in 1960, and the building served as Princeville's town hall from 1960 until 1999.
Leslie N. Boney Sr. (1880–1964) was an American architect who focused on schools. He designed approximately 1,000 schools or additions to schools, and his works appear in 51 of North Carolina's 100 counties.
P.H. Hanes Knitting Company is a historic textile mill complex located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The complex includes three buildings. The Knitting Building or North Building was built in 1920–1921, and is a six-story, Beaux-Arts style concrete and steel building sheathed in brick. The Mill Building or East Building was built in 1928, and is a five-story-plus-basement building of concrete, brick, and steel construction. The Warehouse and Shipping Building was built in 1940, and is a six-story steel frame building sheathed in brick. The P.H. Hanes Knitting Company was founded in 1901 by Pleasant H. Hanes, brother of John W. Hanes who founded Shamrock Mills, later Hanes Hosiery. In February 1965, P. H. Hanes Knitting Company merged with Hanes Hosiery. The downtown mill complex closed in 1965. The complex has been converted to loft apartments.
Old Richmond Schoolhouse and Gymnasium is a historic school building and gymnasium located near Tobaccoville, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The Old Richmond Schoolhouse was built about 1914, and is a one-story, three bay, rectangular frame building with a projecting center bay. It sits on a brick pier foundation and has a side gable roof with exposed rafter ends. The gymnasium was built about 1940 with fund by the Works Progress Administration, and is a tall one-story, weatherboard-clad frame building with a gable roof. The Old Richmond Schoolhouse was restored in 1980 for use as a museum.
Sunbury High School is a historic high school complex located at Sunbury, Gates County, North Carolina. The complex consists of five buildings built between 1908 and about 1950. The main building was built in 1937, and is a two-story, Colonial Revival style brick building. It consists of a seven bay, side-gabled main block flanked by two, long, slightly lower two-story, side-gabled wings. Also on the property is a two-story, side-gable frame, Colonial Revival-style Teacherage, built about 1940; a one-story, six-bay, "T-shaped", Agricultural Building built about 1908; a Gymnasium built about 1950; and a Pump-House/Oil House, built about 1941. The complex served as a high school until 1962. It housed an elementary school until it closed in 1997.
Pomona High School, Former, also known as Lindley Junior High School, is a historic school building located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1920, and is a two-story, nine bay, "U"-shaped, Classical Revival style building. Two projecting wings were added in 1940, and in 1951, the space was filled between the wings. It is faced with dark bricks accented with limestone, concrete, and terra cotta ornament. The building features a one-story limestone entrance portico supported by four Doric order columns. The school closed in 1979. It has been converted to apartments.
Ahoskie Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings in the central business district of Ahoskie. The commercial and governmental buildings include notable examples of Classical Revival and Colonial Revival architecture dated between 1901 and the late 1930s. Notable buildings include the (former) United States Post Office (1940), Garrett Hotel (1926), W. D. Newsome Building, Hotel Comfort (1907), Mitchell Hotel, Hertford Herald building, Bank of Ahoskie (1925-1926), Sawyer~Browne Furniture Company (1924), Richard Theater (1927), and E. L. Garrett Building (1938).
Ahoskie Historic District is a national historic district located at Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 604 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Ahoskie. The buildings include notable examples of Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. The district includes the separately listed Ahoskie School and Roberts H. Jernigan House and encompasses the previously listed Ahoskie Downtown Historic District. Other notable buildings include The Tomahawk Motel, Ahoskie Food Center, Thomas Wright Hayes House, Basnight & Company Building, Ahoskie United Methodist Church, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company.
East End Historic District is a national historic district located at Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 27 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly African-American residential section of Ahoskie. The buildings include notable examples of Colonial Revival architecture. Notable buildings include the 12 buildings and racetrack at the Atlantic District Fairgrounds and 3 brick buildings at the Robert L. Vann Elementary and High School complex.
Freeman House, also known as The Hertford Academy, is a historic school building located in the Murfreesboro Historic District at Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, Federal style brick building with a hip roof and central passage plan. It is considered the birthplace of Chowan University.
The Columns, also known as the McDowell Columns Building, is a historic school building located at Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1852, and is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick building with a low hip roof and octagonal belvedere. The front facade features a massive portico supported by eight Doric order columns. It was built to house the Chowan Baptist Female Institute, later Chowan University. The building houses the school's administrative offices.
Roberts H. Jernigan House is a historic home located at Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917–1918, and is a two-story, Southern Colonial style frame dwelling with a truncated hip roof. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features a two-story, pedimented portico flanked by one-story porches extending to sides.
King-Casper-Ward-Bazemore House, also known as the Cling Bazemore House, is a historic home located near Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1805, and is a two-story, three bay, Federal period frame dwelling with a truncated hip roof. It is sheathed in beaded siding and has two brick chimneys. The house was moved to its present site in 1980.
Mulberry Grove was a historic plantation house located near Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1758, and was originally a 1 1/2-story brick dwelling with Georgian detailing, which was raised to two stories. At that time, it was extensively remodeled in the Greek Revival style with a hipped roof. It has a frame wing to form a "T"-shape. It was the ancestral seat of the Cotton and Moore families of Hertford County. The house has been demolished.
William Mitchell House is a historic home located near Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1832, and is a two-story, five bay by two bay, "L"-shaped Federal style frame dwelling, with Greek Revival style design elements. It has a shallow gable roof and brick pier foundation. Also on the property are the contributing office, schoolhouse, carriage house, and smokehouse. It was the home of William Mitchell, one of the founders of Chowan University.
James Newsome House, also known as Wynnewood, is a historic plantation house located near Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built in the 1820s or 1830s, and is a two-story, three bay Federal style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, beaded siding, and brick chimneys with free-standing stacks at the gable ends. Also on the property are the contributing slave cabin, smokehouse, large barn, and plantation office.
Princeton Graded School is a historic Rosenwald school located at Princeton, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925–1926, is a six-teacher, "H"-shaped frame school building sheathed in brick. The building has two additions: a one-story, brick hip-roof extension containing two bathrooms; and a low, one-story, brick, asymmetrical gable-roof section that housed the furnace. It retains an original shed-roof porch supported by Doric order posts. Also on the property are a contributing cemetery with less than 20 visible markers and a septic tank. The school was closed by 1973.
Palmer Fire School, also known as Firemen's Hall, is a historic school complex for firefighters located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The complex consists of the 1940, one-story, rock-faced assembly hall and the 1938, six-story, red-brick training tower. The assembly hall is a Late Gothic Revival style building, five bays wide with a stuccoed, crenellated parapet and projecting end bays. Its construction was funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and was the only drill school for firemen funded by the WPA.
Cliffside Public School is a historic school complex located at Cliffside, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Louis H. Asbury (1877-1975) and built in 1920–1921. It is a two-story on basement, "T"-plan, Classical Revival style terra cotta tile building sheathed in glazed brick. The front facade features a tetrastyle two-story portico of Indiana limestone. The vocational and physical education building, erected by the Work Projects Administration in 1940–1941. Also on the property are the contributing series of fieldstone masonry structures built in 1940–1941.It sits on landscaped grounds designed by Earle Sumner Draper.
