Siler City High School

Siler City High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	119 S. Third Ave., Siler City, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°43′23″N79°27′36″W / 35.72306°N 79.46000°W / 35.72306; -79.46000
Area	6.7 acres (2.7 ha)
Built	1922 (1922)
Architect	Wilson, C.C.; Bray, Bun B.
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	98000873 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 15, 1998

Siler City High School, also known as the Paul Braxton School, is a historic high school building located at Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1922, and is a two-story, T-shaped, five-bay brick school building with streamlined Art Deco design elements. It has a two-story-high auditorium wing. Also on the property are the contributing mid-1930s one-story brick woodworking shop building which now serves as a community center, a 1+1⁄2-story frame gymnasium begun in 1930, and an early 1930s dirt baseball field which was initially a football field. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Kaye Graybeal (March 1998). "Siler City High School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.