Bingham School

For the school in Alpena, Michigan, see Bingham School (Alpena, Michigan).

Bingham School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Headmaster's home, Bingham School, March 2007
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Location	NC 54 and SR 1007, Oaks, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°57′13″N79°15′16″W / 35.95361°N 79.25444°W / 35.95361; -79.25444
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1845 (1845)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	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]

Notable alumni

• Frank Mebane (1865–1926), American industrialist

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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 February 1, 2015.