{"nrhp_refnum":"95000659","name":"Williams Grove School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Depot St. N side, between Hickory and Willow Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Angier","county":"Harnett County","state":"NC","lat":35.50779405000003,"lon":-78.73476760599993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room, front gable frame schoolhouse in the town of Angier, Harnett County, North Carolina, built in 1892 on the Williams Farm and moved in 1975 to a town-owned park on the east side of Angier.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an extraordinarily rare and well-preserved example of the late nineteenth-century rural one-room school in North Carolina and represents the state's early public education. It is described as the only late nineteenth-century one-room, one-teacher frame schoolhouse remaining in Harnett County and one of very few in the state. Its setting, restoration and continued community ties are also cited.","narrative":"Built in 1892 on the Williams Farm with materials and labor donated by neighbours, this unpainted, one-room frame schoolhouse served the white children of Black River Township District 1 until a fire in 1925 led to its closure. Its front gable form, rectangular plan, four-over-four windows and corner-braced frame typify the rural country school of North Carolina. It later served as a tenant house and grain store before a local women's club rescued it in 1973. Moved in 1975 to a town park in Angier and restored using oral histories from former students, it retains original weatherboards, a brick fireplace, a blackboard wall and replica desks. The nomination regards it as a rare survivor of a building type largely lost to school consolidation in the 1910s and 1920s, and as a focus of continuing community pride.","period_of_significance":"1892-1925","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Moved in 1975 to a town-owned park and restored; the roof is covered with replacement wood shingles and the building is maintained as a restored school.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.703246-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7207/47720748/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95000659.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000659/81031ed97b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000659/81031ed97b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Gjm1761","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Williams_Grove_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gjm1761</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Williams_Grove_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720748","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Grove_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061140"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/harnett-county/williams-grove-school-95000659/"}