Central Elementary School (New Bern, North Carolina)

	Central Elementary School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The first academy building, September 2012
Location	311-313 New St. and 517 Hancock St.,; New Bern, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°06′37″N 77°02′29″W / 35.1103°N 77.0415°W
Area	7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built	1806
Architect	James Coor, Mr. Carroll
NRHP reference No.	72000938
Added to NRHP	January 20, 1972

Central Elementary School is a pair of historic school buildings in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. The First New Bern Academy is located on New Street and was built about 1806. It is a two-story, brick building with a hipped roof and two interior ridge chimneys. It features a semicircular tetrastyle entrance porch with Tuscan order columns and a roof cupola. It has a rear addition dated to the late-19th century. The Second New Bern Academy was built in 1884 to replace the previous building.^[2] The buildings retained their educational functions until 1971. The 1806 building now houses a museum, while the 1884 building has been converted into apartments.^[3]

The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Survey Planning Unit Staff (July 1971). "Central Elementary School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^ Farmer, Vina Hutchinson (2007). New Bern. Arcadia Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 9780738552729. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

External links[edit]

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-280, "First Academy, New Street at Hancock, New Bern, Craven County, NC", 2 photos

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Survey Planning Unit Staff (July 1971). "Central Elementary School" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

[3] Farmer, Vina Hutchinson (2007). New Bern. Arcadia Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 9780738552729. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

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