Patterson School Historic District
Patterson School Historic District is a historic agricultural and Episcopal mission school complex and national historic district located at Legerwood, Caldwell County, North Carolina. The complex includes 13 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures. Notable contributing resources include the Colonial Revival-style Palmyra Hall (1927), Sarah Joyce Lenoir Memorial Library (1922, 1951), Gard Hall (1920-1921), Headmaster's House (1912), Buffalo Creek Dam (pre-1940), Milk House (1945), two Barns (1920s, 1945), North Silo (1920s), Chapel of Rest (1918), Jones-Patterson Cemetery (1856-c. 1981), Hugh A. Dobbin House (c. 1939), and Tudor Revival-style Edgar A. Dobbin House (Greystone) (1930s). In 1994 the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina sold the Patterson School property.
The school was established in 1910 to educate rural boys. The school complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Laura A. W. Phillips (May 2004). "Patterson School Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ^ Federal Writers Project (1939). North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. Works Progress Administration. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-403-02182-6.
