Pleasant Retreat Academy

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Pleasant Retreat Academy
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pleasant Retreat Academy, September 2014
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Location	129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°W / 35.47222; -81.25611Coordinates: 35°28′20″N 81°15′22″W / 35.47222°N 81.25611°W / 35.47222; -81.25611
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1817 (1817)-1820
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference #	75001277[1]
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1975

Pleasant Retreat Academy, also known as The Confederate Memorial Hall, is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina.^[2]

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Former pupils
  


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  3 See also
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 Further reading
  


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  6 External links
  

History

Pleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained Federal-style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

Former pupils

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  William Graham (1804–1875), American politician


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  James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician


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  Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate States Army general


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  Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician

See also

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  National Register of Historic Places portal
  


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  North Carolina portal
  

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, North Carolina


• United Daughters of the Confederacy

References

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2. 
   ^ ^ab Robert Topkins and Charles Greer Suttlemyre, Jr. (March 1975). "Pleasant Retreat Academy" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places–Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
   

Further reading

• 
  Address by Alfred Nixon, Esq (Speech). Dedication of The Confederate Memorial Hall. Lincolnton, N.C.: Southern Stars Chapter, U. D. C. August 27, 1908. Retrieved March 6, 2016 – via News Print.
  

External links

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