{"nrhp_refnum":"02000441","name":"Dallas Graded and High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 W. Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Gaston County","state":"NC","lat":35.31466309800004,"lon":-81.17922209199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick Classical Revival school building at 300 West Church Street in Dallas, Gaston County, North Carolina, built in 1923-1924 to a design by an architect identified as McMichael, with a 1951 addition.","why_significant":"The school is tied to the school consolidation movement of the late 1910s and 1920s, which merged small rural schools into larger ones with shared resources. It represents advances in public education in Gaston County and is an intact example of the Classical Revival schools built across the state in the 1920s.","narrative":"Dallas Graded and High School, later called the Church Street School, is a two-story red brick building on a 0.93-acre site at 300 West Church Street in Dallas, North Carolina. Commissioned by the Gaston County Board of Education in 1923, it opened for classes on September 1, 1924, with 362 students. It served as a consolidation center for several smaller schools in the area. The T-plan building has a raised basement, a flat roof with a brick parapet, and a porticoed central entrance with a pediment. Decorative brickwork with cast stone diamonds on the east elevation hints at Art Deco influence. A seven-bay addition was built in 1951, and a separate gymnasium followed in 1939. The school is significant for its role in the consolidation movement and the growth of public education in Gaston County, and as a well-preserved example of 1920s civic school architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1924 to 1952. The building is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1924-1952","architect_builder":"McMichael, architect","architectural_style":"Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant, not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.407662-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7200/47720021/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000441.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000441/51cbf7eb6a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000441/51cbf7eb6a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RoxylovesHistory","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dallas_Graded_and_High_School,_300_W._Church_Street,_Dallas,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RoxylovesHistory</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dallas_Graded_and_High_School,_300_W._Church_Street,_Dallas,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720021","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Graded_and_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18705873"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gaston-county/dallas-graded-and-high-school-02000441/"}