{"nrhp_refnum":"08000779","name":"Marshall High School (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Blannahassett Island. W. side Bridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marshall","county":"Madison County","state":"NC","lat":35.79569911500005,"lon":-82.68677754599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Marshall High School is a two-story-plus-basement, U-shaped brick school building on Blannahassett Island in the French Broad River at Marshall, the county seat of Madison County, North Carolina. It was completed in 1926 as part of the county's school consolidation effort.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is locally significant as an example of the Colonial Revival style used for a public school in a prominent town location. It is also significant for its association with the educational history of Marshall and Madison County. The nomination marks Criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built on Blannahassett Island in the French Broad River at Marshall, North Carolina, the brick Marshall High School was completed in 1926 and designed by Raleigh architect Frank B. Simpson. Mack Sprinkle of Marshall was the contractor, and the building cost about $56,800 for construction. Its symmetrical U-shaped plan has a two-story central auditorium, ten classrooms on each floor, and a basement that originally held a gymnasium with locker rooms. The building follows the Colonial Revival style, with projecting bays, gabled parapets, concrete keystones and flat brick arches. It was built during the consolidation of county schools, when Madison County was replacing many small log and frame schoolhouses. Its prominent site on the island was chosen because level land was scarce in the town. The nomination treats it as a locally important example of a public school in this style. The 2004 flood damaged the building, and renovation for artist studios was under way when the nomination was prepared.","period_of_significance":"1926-1957","architect_builder":"Frank B. Simpson, architect; Mack Sprinkle, builder","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Under renovation for use as artist studios after severe damage in the 2004 flood.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.935446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7211/47721159/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000779.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000779/68001cdabd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000779/68001cdabd-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Marshall_High_School_Gymnasium,_Marshall,_NC_(39724028613).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Marshall_High_School_Gymnasium,_Marshall,_NC_(39724028613).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721159","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_High_School_(Marshall,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986960"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/madison-county/marshall-high-school-additional-documentation-08000779/"}