Bald Creek Elementary School – Burnsville NC

City:
Burnsville, NC

Site Type:
Schools, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Completed:
1938

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Along with the adjacent gymnasium, this school was constructed in 1938 with Workd Progress Administration (WPA) labor. NCDCR.gov: “Bald Creek Elementary School is a native stone Rustic Revival-style building, and one of five schools built by the WPA in Yancey County.”

Source notes

https://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/YC0025.pdf (accessed Aug. 2016)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 3, 2016.
Additional contributions by Laurel Taylor.

Location Info


Bald Creek Elementary School Rd.
Burnsville, NC 28714

Coordinates: 35.912823, -82.423476

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