Murphey School | |
Location | 3729 Murphy School Rd., near Hillsborough, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°1′44″N79°0′54″W / 36.02889°N 79.01500°W |
Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
Built | 1923 | , 1939, 1959
Architect | Linthicum, Henri C.; et al. |
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Bungalow/craftsman |
NRHP reference No. | 09000637 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 20, 2009 |
Murphey School is a historic school complex located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The Murphey School was built in 1923, and is a one-story, Spanish Revival style brick building with a hip-on-hip roof covered in pressed metal shingles resembling terra cotta tiles. The front facade features a projecting central hip roof front entrance. Attached to the school is a one-story neoclassical style auditorium addition built in 1936 with a Doric order portico. Also on the property is a contributing 1+1⁄2-story bungalow style teacherage (c. 1923), well house (c. 1932), and water tower (c. 1936). [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1]
The Murphey School Auditorium is the current home of Burning Coal Theatre Company.
The Hood–Anderson Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Eagle Rock, Wake County, North Carolina, a suburb of the state capital Raleigh. The main house was built about 1839, and is an example of transitional Federal / Greek Revival style I-house. It is two stories with a low-pitched hip roof and a rear two-story, hipped-roof ell. The front facade features a large, one-story porch, built in 1917, supported by Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are the contributing combined general store and post office (1854), a one-room dwelling, a two-room tenant/slave house, a barn (1912), a smokehouse, and several other outbuildings and sites including a family cemetery.
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