{"nrhp_refnum":"00000990","name":"Hodges Business College","other_names":["Hodges School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 1819, 0.15 mi. SE of jct. with NC 801","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mocksville","county":"Davie County","state":"NC","lat":35.838912626000024,"lon":-80.50361854199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Gothic Revival school building erected in 1894 in rural Jerusalem Township, southeast of Mocksville in Davie County, North Carolina. It was built by J. D. Hodges for his Hodges Business College.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is remarkably intact and is Davie County's only rural brick school from the nineteenth century, and one of few surviving brick structures in the county. It is presented as an outstanding vernacular Gothic Revival example and as the only surviving academy of the late nineteenth century in the county. Its business curriculum is described as unusual for a rural school.","narrative":"Built in 1894 by educator John Daniel Hodges on his family farm in rural Jerusalem Township, Davie County, this two-story brick building housed a private school offering business, shorthand, classical, and teacher-training courses. Its steep gable roof, lancet-arched windows and front entrance, and brick voussoirs make it the most distinctive surviving Gothic Revival building in the county. The school is noted as the only one of the county's late nineteenth-century private academies still standing, and it is described as the sole rural brick school of that era. Hodges had earlier served in the Fifth North Carolina Cavalry and held degrees from Trinity College and Yale. He also became county superintendent of schools in 1900, which led him to close the school for a time. After 1909 he reopened it briefly until about 1911. The building was later converted to tenant housing around 1920 and remains largely unaltered on its exterior.","period_of_significance":"1894 - ca. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The school building is in fair to good condition, and the document notes it was used for tenant housing and later for storage, with plans by the current owner to convert it to a residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.434343-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7199/47719985/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000990.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719985","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodges_Business_College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18349722"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davie-county/hodges-business-college-00000990/"}