Pleasant Retreat Academy is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina.
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. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Former pupils
William Graham (1804–1875), American politician
James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician
Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate States Army general
Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, North Carolina
United Daughters of the Confederacy
References
Further reading
External links
Historic Schools of the Charlotte Region at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Urban Institute