{"nrhp_refnum":"02000495","name":"Fuquay Springs High School","other_names":["Fuquay--Varina Middle School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"112 N. Ennis St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fuquay-Varina","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.58676989000003,"lon":-78.79367683599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one- and two-story, flat-roofed red brick school building built about 1925 at 112 North Ennis Street in Fuquay-Varina, Wake County, North Carolina. It now sits on the campus of Fuquay-Varina Middle School.","why_significant":"The building is significant under Criterion A for its link to local public education in Fuquay-Varina. It has operated continuously as a school since about 1925 and reflects the early twentieth-century expansion of North Carolina's school system. It is also one of the few well-preserved consolidated high school buildings in Wake County.","narrative":"Built around 1925, this red brick school at 112 North Ennis Street in Fuquay-Varina served as the community's high school until the early 1970s, when a new facility opened elsewhere and the building became a middle school. It has two main stories, a rear one-story auditorium wing, a stepped parapet roofline, brick corbelling over the second-floor windows and a brick water table. Windows have been replaced, and dropped ceilings and linoleum floors were added in a 1959 renovation, but the plaster walls, wood doors and the auditorium stage survive. The school replaced an earlier three-story building, formed through the 1914 consolidation of the Cardenas and Fuquay Springs schools, and the first class graduated from the new building in 1928. It reflects the push for consolidated schools and expanded education in North Carolina in the early twentieth century and is among the few well-preserved examples of its type in Wake County.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1925-1952","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Used continuously as a school since about 1925; it has served as a middle school since the early 1970s. A local preservation group has expressed interest in eventual reuse as a community arts facility.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.021802-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7186/47718663/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000495.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718663","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuquay_Springs_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708811"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/fuquay-springs-high-school-02000495/"}