{"nrhp_refnum":"07001495","name":"Bath School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"King & Carteret Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bath","county":"Beaufort County","state":"NC","lat":35.48031837900004,"lon":-76.81618824599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A consolidation-era public school campus at King and Carteret Streets in Bath, Beaufort County, North Carolina. The main building was built in phases in 1918, 1920 and 1921, with a 1966-67 kitchen addition, plus a 1939 vocational building and a 1948 shop building.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be an excellent, largely intact example of a rural consolidation school in Beaufort County, qualifying under Criterion A for education and Criterion C for architecture. It is the only surviving consolidation school in the county with classroom buildings from the 1910s and 1920s. The 1939 vocational building, built with PWA funds, is one of only three intact examples from the county's most active period of school construction.","narrative":"Bath School is a campus of brick and block school buildings at King and Carteret Streets in Bath, North Carolina. Its main building went up in stages: a 1918 classroom block, a 1920 classroom block and a 1921 auditorium building, all joined by two-story hallways. A kitchen was added in 1966-67. A vocational building with a gymnasium followed in 1939, funded by the Public Works Administration, and a concrete block shop building was added in 1948. The school was part of the early twentieth-century movement to merge small rural schoolhouses into larger schools. It served kindergarten through twelfth grade until the late 1980s, and the main classrooms kept their original doors, blackboards, plaster walls and hardwood floors. It is the only consolidation school in Beaufort County that keeps classroom buildings from the 1910s and 1920s. Its Colonial Revival design and high degree of integrity supported its recognition for education and architecture, with significance running from about 1918 to 1957.","period_of_significance":"c. 1918 to 1957","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals / Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use. The classroom buildings have been used by the school board for storage since the early 1990s, and the vocational building served as overflow classroom space until June 2007.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.676473-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7190/47719021/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07001495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001495/25fdb4999f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001495/25fdb4999f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bath_School,_Carteret_Street_side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bath_School,_Carteret_Street_side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719021","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_(Bath,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17515308"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/beaufort-county/bath-school-07001495/"}