Bingham School

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Bingham School
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Headmaster's home, Bingham School, March 2007
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LocationNC 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 Coordinates: 35°57′13″N79°15′16″W / 35.95361°N 79.25444°W / 35.95361; -79.25444
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1845 (1845)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No. 78001969 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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 2015-02-01.