{"nrhp_refnum":"08001288","name":"Lansing School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. side of NC 194 at jct. with NC 1517","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lansing","county":"Ashe County","state":"NC","lat":36.50079891300004,"lon":-81.50531744199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1937-1938 granite school building in Lansing, Ashe County, North Carolina, built by the Works Progress Administration, with a 1947-1948 cafeteria and a 1952-1953 brick high school classroom building on a 3.9-acre terraced site.","why_significant":"It is argued to be locally significant under Criterion A for its role in education as a consolidated school, and for being the only remaining county school of five built by the WPA and its predecessor agency. Under Criterion C, it is a well-preserved, finely crafted example of the native stone buildings the WPA commonly built in western North Carolina. Its modest Colonial Revival styling is also noted as unusual in Ashe County.","narrative":"Lansing School is a large granite school building completed in 1938 in the mountain town of Lansing, Ashe County. Built with Works Progress Administration labor, it has a nineteen-bay, two-story facade with modest Colonial Revival details, including a pedimented entry porch with paired Tuscan columns and nine-over-nine windows. The school sits on a hillside with stone terraces, walkways and staircases. Later additions include a 1947-1948 concrete block cafeteria and a 1952-1953 brick high school classroom building. The stone building is described as the largest and most architecturally impressive of the county's historic schools. It reflects the consolidation of rural schools that began in Ashe County in 1929, and it served as the county's largest high school in the late 1930s. It is also the only remaining county school of five built by the WPA and its predecessor agency. The school system used the property until 1994. Its exterior remains largely unchanged, while parts of the interior have lost original wall sheathing and wainscoting.","period_of_significance":"1938-1958","architect_builder":"Baldwin, W.C., foreman","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed function is vacant. The cafeteria is used as a winery and the 1952-53 classroom building as artists' rooms and studios. The stone school is to be rehabilitated for small business uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.864639-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7189/47718965/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08001288.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001288/e5f5d550df-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001288/e5f5d550df-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lrc284","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schoolhouse_01_20200715.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lrc284</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schoolhouse_01_20200715.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718965","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansing_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18127131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/ashe-county/lansing-school-08001288/"}