Roughly bounded by Fifth and Third Aves., Third St., Second Ave. and N. Center St., Hickory, North Carolina. County/parish: Catawba.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 23, 1986. NRIS 86003357.
Part of Hickory MRA (NRIS 64000456).
52 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.
Claremont High School Historic District is a national historic district located at Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 172 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Hickory. Most of the dwellings date from the late 19th through mid-20th century and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The Claremont High School was completed in 1925, and is a three-story, H-shaped, Neoclassical style school. The school was rehabilitated in 1986 as an arts and science center. Other notable buildings include Maple Grove (c. 1875), Shuler-Harper House (1887), Harvey E. McComb House (1889), (former) Corinth Reformed Church Parsonage (1895), Shuford L. Whitener House (1897, c. 1910), Judge W. B. Councill House (1902), George W. Hall House (c. 1906), Carolina Park, Josephine Lyerly House (c. 1912), John L. Riddle House (1918), Marshall R. Wagner House (1938), David M. McComb Jr. House (1939), Arthur H. Burgess House (1940), and R. L. Noblin House (1950).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, with a boundary increase in 2009.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717392