{"nrhp_refnum":"91001779","name":"Jamestown High School, Former","other_names":["Jamestown Public School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamestown","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.993480548000036,"lon":-79.93895203999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story brick school building at 200 West Main Street in Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina, built in 1915 to designs by architect Charles E. Hartge of Raleigh and now used as a library.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant in education as an example of early twentieth-century school modernization in North Carolina, following the statewide education reforms associated with Governor Aycock. It is also significant architecturally as an excellent example of institutional Classical Revival (Neoclassical) design by Charles E. Hartge. The building is described as substantially intact and restored to its original size and form.","narrative":"Set on a grassy hill in the center of Jamestown, this brick school was built in 1915 after fire destroyed the earlier frame high school. Architect Charles E. Hartge of Raleigh designed the two-and-one-half-story building, which has a full-height Ionic portico, cast stone trim, buff brick ornamentation and a slate hipped roof with cresting. Builders A. F. Brooks and W. B. Hunt completed it by fall of that year. The school served students for 67 years, becoming an elementary school in 1959 and closing in 1982. Additions from the 1920s, 1930s and 1960s were removed during a 1986-87 rehabilitation, and the building now houses a library, meeting room and local archives. It is recognized for its role in North Carolina's early twentieth-century push to improve public schools, with Jamestown among the forerunners, and as a fine example of institutional Neoclassical design that retains its overall character despite replaced windows and columns.","period_of_significance":"1915-1941","architect_builder":"Hartge, Charles E., Architect; Brooks, A.F. and Hunt, W.B., Builders","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (Neoclassical)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacated as a school in 1982; rehabilitated in 1986-87 with additions removed, and opened as the town's first library in 1988, with a meeting room and local archives on the first floor.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.031742-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7206/47720604/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001779.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001779/41723ec9ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001779/41723ec9ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"336photog","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jamestown_High_School_Building.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">336photog</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:Jamestown_High_School_Building.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001345","name":"Jamestown Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/jamestown-historic-district-additional-documentation-73001345/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720604","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Jamestown_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18705889"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/jamestown-high-school-former-91001779/"}