Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library and Teacher's Home | |
Location | 100 S. Piedmont Ave., Kings Mountain, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°14′27″N81°20′34″W / 35.24083°N 81.34278°W |
Area | Less than one acre |
Built | 1923 | , 1987–1988, 1999–2000
Architectural style | Southern Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 14001049 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 16, 2014 |
Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library and Teacher's Home, also known as the Mauney Memorial Library and Dr. Jacob George Van Buren Hord House, is a historic home and library located at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923 as a private dwelling and donated to the city of Kings Mountain in 1947. From 1947 to about 1962–1963, the building also functioned as a teacherage for the Kings Mountain school system. It is a two-story, five-bay, yellow-brick Southern Colonial Revival-style house. The front facade features a two-story, pedimented tetrastyle portico with stucco-finished masonry columns. It has a one-story rear block added in 1987–1988 and the Harris Children's Wing, a two-level addition of 1999–2000. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1]
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