Avery Avenue School
Avery Avenue School from Bouchelle Street
Avery Avenue School is located in North Carolina
Avery Avenue School
Avery Avenue School is located in the United States
Avery Avenue School
Location200 Avery Ave., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates35°44′52″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74778°N 81.68722°W / 35.74778; -81.68722
Arealess than one acre
Built1923 (1923)
ArchitectHook, Charles Christian
MPSMorganton MRA
NRHP reference No.87001925[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 9, 1987

Avery Avenue School, also known as Catawba Valley Legal Services, is a historic school building located at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a two-story, brick, crescent-shaped building. It has a polygonal center section features a pyramidal roof covered in mission tile and topped by a small belfry. The building housed a school until 1957 when it was converted to offices for Burke County.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Suzanne Pickens Wylie (July 1986). "Avery Avenue School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.


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