Avery Avenue School

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Avery Avenue School
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Avery Avenue School from Bouchelle Street
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Location200 Avery Ave., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°44′52″N81°41′14″W / 35.74778°N 81.68722°W / 35.74778; -81.68722
Arealess than one acre
Built1923 (1923)
ArchitectHook, Charles Christian
MPS Morganton MRA
NRHP reference No. 87001925 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 9, 1987

Avery Avenue School, also known as Catawba Valley Legal Services, is a historic school building located at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a two-story, brick, crescent-shaped building. It has a polygonal center section features a pyramidal roof covered in mission tile and topped by a small belfry. The building housed a school until 1957 when it was converted to offices for Burke County. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Suzanne Pickens Wylie (July 1986). "Avery Avenue School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.