Bingham School

Historic school building in North Carolina, United States
United States historic place
Bingham School
Headmaster's home, Bingham School, March 2007
35°57′13″N 79°15′16″W / 35.95361°N 79.25444°W / 35.95361; -79.25444
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1845 (1845)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.78001969[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 18, 1978

Bingham School is a historic school complex located at Oaks, Orange County, North Carolina. The complex includes a large, expansive, multi-stage headmaster's house, a contemporary smokehouse and well house. The oldest section of the house is a log structure that forms the rear ell and dates to the early 19th century. Attached to it is a frame addition. The front section of the house, is a two-story Greek Revival style, three bay by two bay, frame block dated to about 1845. The rear of the house features a colonnaded porch with Doric order columns that carries along the rear of the two-story section and the front of the ell. The school operated at this location from about 1845 to near the end of the American Civil War.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

Notable alumni

  • Frank Mebane (1865–1926), American industrialist

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Catherin W. Bishir and Diane Lea (n.d.). "Bingham School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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