Avery Avenue School

Avery Avenue School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Location	200 Avery Ave., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°44′52″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74778°N 81.68722°W / 35.74778; -81.68722Coordinates: 35°44′52″N 81°41′14″W / 35.74778°N 81.68722°W / 35.74778; -81.68722
Area	less than one acre
Built	1923 (1923)
Architect	Hook, Charles Christian
MPS	Morganton MRA
NRHP Reference #	87001925^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 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 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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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