Pleasant Retreat Academy

	Pleasant Retreat Academy
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Pleasant Retreat Academy, September 2014
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Location	129 East Pine Street,; Lincolnton, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°WCoordinates: 35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1817-1820
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	75001277
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1975

Pleasant Retreat Academy, also known as The Confederate Memorial Hall, is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina.^[2]

History[]

Pleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained Federal-style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

Former pupils[]

William Graham (1804–1875), American politician
James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician
Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate States Army general
Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Robert Topkins and Charles Greer Suttlemyre, Jr. (March 1975). "Pleasant Retreat Academy" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places–Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 6, 2016.

External links[]

Historic Schools of the Charlotte Region at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Urban Institute

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

[nrhpinv-2] Robert Topkins and Charles Greer Suttlemyre, Jr. (March 1975). "Pleasant Retreat Academy" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places–Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 6, 2016.

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Pleasant Retreat Academy

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History[]

Former pupils[]

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