File:Webster Rock School, Webster, NC (32741130718).jpg
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 89002262. |
Summary
| Description | This is the old Webster “Rock” School, located on Webster Road atop a hilltop overlooking the Tuckaseigee River below. Constructed between 1936 and 1938, the tan and brown river rock building was built by the Works Progress Administration (part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal”) and replaced an earlier, two-story, wood-frame school that once stood on the site of the athletic field next to the school. The building has one floor, and was built in an E-shaped plan with a wing containing eight classrooms, a cafeteria, and a library making up the front and side wings, with a large gymnasium/auditorium space in a central wing that extends out of the rear of the building behind the front entrance. The building was home to Webster Elementary School and Webster High School from 1936 until 1960, when the High School was consolidated with Sylva High School to form Sylva-Webster High School, located at the present campus of Smoky Mountain High School. The building continued to be used as Webster Elementary School until 1973, when it was consolidated with Savannah Elementary School and Sylva Elementary School to form Fairview Elementary School, which moved to a campus consisting of round, open-classroom “pod” structures behind Smoky Mountain High School. The building was subsequently renovated, with the window bays mostly filled in with wooden panels, and the ceilings of the interior lowered, and became home to the Southwestern Child Development Center and the Family Resources Center, a preschool and family welfare program that continues to operate out of the building. Though it has been altered in a way that is unsympathetic to the original design of the building, the changes are easily reversible, and hopefully will be undone in a future renovation, reopening the windows and allowing the building to function as intended, with massive, nine-over-nine double-hung windows allowing for light and ventilation. The building, owing to its historical value and minimally altered state (except for the cosmetics) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. |
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| Source | Webster Rock School, Webster, NC |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by w_lemay at https://flickr.com/photos/59081381@N03/32741130718 (archive). It was reviewed on 4 June 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-zero. |
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| current | 05:19, 11 April 2019 |  | 4,032 × 3,024 (5.66 MB) | Ser Amantio di Nicolao | Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons |
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