{"nrhp_refnum":"82003444","name":"Hamrick, E. B., Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Gardner-Webb College campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boiling Springs","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.249549744000035,"lon":-81.66779180799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"E. B. Hamrick Hall is a two-story brick institutional building with Colonial Revival features on the Gardner-Webb College campus in Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was completed in 1925 as the Memorial Building and rebuilt in 1943 after a fire.","why_significant":"It is the oldest building remaining on the Gardner-Webb campus and is tied to the founding and difficult early years of a Baptist school important to education in the southwestern North Carolina Piedmont. It was rebuilt after a 1937 fire and renamed for trustee and benefactor E. B. Hamrick. Alumni and local citizens see it as a symbol of the dedication of the school's early leaders.","narrative":"Hamrick Hall is a red-brick, T-plan building at the center of the Gardner-Webb College campus in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Begun in 1920 as a memorial to local soldiers and sailors of the World War, it was finished in 1925 after cost overruns, a bond issue and help from the Baptist State Convention. It served as the school's main administration, classroom and auditorium building. A fire in November 1937 gutted the interior, and the rebuilt hall was completed in 1943 under student foreman Junius McAllister. It was renamed for Elijah Bly Hamrick, a local businessman and longtime trustee whose gifts helped keep the school open. Its only notable ornament is a white cast-stone entrance pavilion with Ionic pilasters and a pediment. The oldest building on campus, it still holds offices, classrooms, language labs and an auditorium, and it is valued as a reminder of the college's struggles and survival.","period_of_significance":"1920-1925; 1943","architect_builder":"Original building unknown; renovation by Junius McAllister","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (modest, institutional)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use; houses language department offices, classrooms and labs, the drama department and the campus computer center.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.767497-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7196/47719680/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003444.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003444/0bf5e32816-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003444/0bf5e32816-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E.B._Hamrick_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E.B._Hamrick_Hall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719680","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._Hamrick_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18151328"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/hamrick-e-b-hall-82003444/"}