Spencer, NC Graded School

The first public school in Spencer was a wood frame structure built in 1901, but the school quickly outgrew that building, and a brick building was erected in 1906.  The two-story, three-bay brick building had a truncated hip roof and a centrally-located, slightly projecting pavilion topped by a curvilinear gable inspired by the Spanish Mission style.  The building was destroyed by fire in 1925. 

13141 – Publ. By Theo Buerbaum. Salisbury, NC. (Printed in Germany)

Source:

Salisbury Post Bicentennial Issue, 1953

Dreyer, Martha A. The Spencer Architectural and Historic Inventory c1984

Sanborn map image courtesy of ProQuest, Inc.
http://sanborn1.proquest.com/map.php?m=336886

Theo Buerbaum

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