{"nrhp_refnum":"09000332","name":"Sunbury High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 NC 32 N.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sunbury","county":"Gates County","state":"NC","lat":36.44700103200006,"lon":-76.59959121899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1937 two-story brick Colonial Revival school building on NC Highway 32 in Sunbury, Gates County, North Carolina, with a campus of related buildings including a teacherage, agricultural building, gymnasium and pump-house.","why_significant":"The school is tied to the history of public education in Gates County from 1908 to 1959. The main building and teacherage are described as excellent local examples of Colonial Revival architecture. The campus also holds an agricultural building predating the current school and a gymnasium from about 1950.","narrative":"Sunbury High School is a two-story brick school built in 1937 on the east side of North Carolina Highway 32 in Sunbury, Gates County. It has a slate roof, a cast-stone belt course, and a seven-bay main block with a classical central entrance. Two long, slightly lower wings give the building a telescoping form. Inside are wide halls, classrooms with movable partition walls, and an auditorium at the rear. The campus also includes a circa 1940 Colonial Revival teacherage, an agricultural building dating to about 1908 that was moved roughly 200 feet when the school was built, a circa 1950 gymnasium, and a circa 1941 pump-house. The school replaced a brick building of about 1924 that state officials judged structurally unsound in 1936. It served Gates County students for decades, and the teacherage reflects the practice of providing affordable housing for teachers. The property is recognized for its role in local education from 1908 to 1959 and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1908-1959","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals - Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed current function is vacant; first-floor windows are boarded for security, and the roof of the cafeteria addition has holes. The teacherage was most recently leased to a church as a parsonage.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.711886-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7204/47720439/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/09000332.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000332/ecbb4ebbd4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000332/ecbb4ebbd4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunbury_High_School,_former.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunbury_High_School,_former.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720439","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbury_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706072"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gates-county/sunbury-high-school-09000332/"}