{"nrhp_refnum":"83001887","name":"Oak Ridge Military Academy Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 150 and NC 68","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Ridge","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.17636306500003,"lon":-79.98633543120249,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Oak Ridge Military Academy Historic District is a school campus and rural community complex in Oak Ridge, northwestern Guilford County, North Carolina, on a ridge along the former Danville-Salisbury road (now Highway 150). It includes early twentieth-century school buildings and related residences and outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its architecture, including Oakhurst, a Queen Anne house designed by Frank P. Milburn, and Maple Glade, a Neo-Classical house. It is also significant for education, as a school founded in 1850-1853 that the nomination describes as the only remaining military school in North Carolina, and for its association with the Holt brothers, co-principals for over thirty-five years.","narrative":"Oak Ridge sits on a ridge in northwestern Guilford County, North Carolina, where a school campus grew from a single one-story building erected in 1850 to over a dozen structures along the old Danville-Salisbury road. Oak Ridge Male Institute opened in 1853 and was run by co-principals J. Allen Holt and Martin H. Holt from the late 1870s into the early twentieth century. Their brick Chapel, built by 1884, and Holt Hall, completed in 1891, reflected the school's growth. Oakhurst, the Queen Anne home Martin Holt built in 1897, was designed by Frank P. Milburn and includes a stained glass entrance and a three-run stair. Maple Glade, built for J. Allen Holt in 1905, has an Ionic portico. The district is listed for its architecture, for its role in North Carolina private education, and for the Holt family's leadership of the school.","period_of_significance":"1850-1899","architect_builder":"Frank P. Milburn (architect, for Oakhurst)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Neo-Classical; Colonial Revival; Mission; vernacular","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Deteriorated and altered condition is checked on the form; the Oakhurst house is said to have survived with a minimum of alteration and remains in use as an educational institution.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.252526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7205/47720570/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001887/1c530d61fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001887/1c530d61fd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ceh2624","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OakRidgeMilitary.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ceh2624</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:OakRidgeMilitary.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720570","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge_Military_Academy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7073704"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/oak-ridge-military-academy-historic-district-83001887/"}