Mauney, Jacob S., Memorial Library and Teacher's Home

100 S. Piedmont Ave., Kings Mountain, North Carolina. County/parish: Cleveland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 16, 2014. NRIS 14001049.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Dr. George Van Buren Hord House
  • Mauney Memorial Library

From Wikipedia:

Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library and Teacher's Home

Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library and Teacher's Home, also known as the Mauney Memorial Library and Dr. Jacob George Van Buren Hord House, is a historic home and library located at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923 as a private dwelling and donated to the city of Kings Mountain in 1947. From 1947 to about 1962–1963, the building also functioned as a teacherage for the Kings Mountain school system. It is a two-story, five-bay, yellow-brick Southern Colonial Revival-style house. The front facade features a two-story, pedimented tetrastyle portico with stucco-finished masonry columns. It has a one-story rear block added in 1987–1988 and the Harris Children's Wing, a two-level addition of 1999–2000.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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