Richmond Hill Law School

	Richmond Hill Law School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Richmond Hill Law School, October 2011
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Location	North of Richmond Hill on SR 1530, near Richmond Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°16′4″N 80°36′46″W / 36.26778°N 80.61278°WCoordinates: 36°16′4″N 80°36′46″W / 36.26778°N 80.61278°W
Area	9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
Built	1848
NRHP reference No.	70000483
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1970

Richmond Hill Law School is a historic home and law school building located near Richmond Hill, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three bay, "T"-plan, brick building. It has a low hipped roof and deep overhang. It was built as the home and law school of jurist Richmond Mumford Pearson.

Among those who studied at the school were Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson, State Chief Justices William A. Hoke and David Furches, U.S. District Judge Thomas Settle, Congressman William H. H. Cowles, Governors John W. Ellis, Daniel Gould Fowle and Robert B. Glenn,^[2] and two-term Mayor of Charlotte, NC, William Johnston. The property is owned by the Yadkin County Historical Society.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ NC Historical Marker
^ J.G. Zehmer and Sherry I. Penney (June 1970). "Richmond Hill Law School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-07-01.

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

[2] NC Historical Marker

[nrhpinv-3] J.G. Zehmer and Sherry I. Penney (June 1970). "Richmond Hill Law School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-07-01.

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