{"nrhp_refnum":"88003081","name":"Roanoke Rapids Junior-Senior High School","other_names":["Roanoke Rapids High School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"800 Hamilton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke Rapids","county":"Halifax County","state":"NC","lat":36.459025944000075,"lon":-77.65396722799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-12-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-one-half story Tudor Revival junior-senior high school at 800 Hamilton Street in Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was designed by Hobart B. Upjohn and built in 1920-1921.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of its type in North Carolina and one of the largest, costliest and best designed public school buildings of its period. It reflects the strong commitment to public education in a textile town shaped by the Patterson mill family. It also exemplifies contemporary school planning ideas and is a notable work of architect Hobart Brown Upjohn.","narrative":"Roanoke Rapids Junior-Senior High School is a T-shaped, three-and-one-half story brick building on Hamilton Street, finished in 1921 in the \"classic Elizabethan\" or Tudor Revival style. New York architect Hobart B. Upjohn designed it with a crenellated entrance tower, concrete stone trim, oriel windows, gargoyle spouts and a slate gable roof. Inside, the original 2,000-seat auditorium survives with its chandeliers and a plaster Greek frieze. The building was meant to be fire-resistant, with open exterior stairwells at the rear. It cost about $500,000, a large sum for a town of its size, and was paid for through bond issues voters approved by wide margins. A school board influenced by textile manufacturers John L. and Samuel F. Patterson planned it, and Samuel Patterson directed much of the construction. It became the core of a growing school complex and remains in use, reflecting a mill community's commitment to public education in the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1921-1938","architect_builder":"Upjohn, Hobart Brown (architect)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival (\"classic Elizabethan\")","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a school; the pool is covered, the gymnasium houses the library, all windows are replacements, and the auditorium is largely untouched.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.229457-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7206/47720690/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88003081.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"98001574","name":"Roanoke Rapids Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/roanoke-rapids-historic-district-98001574/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720690","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Rapids_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7339796"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/halifax-county/roanoke-rapids-junior-senior-high-school-88003081/"}