S. York St., Gastonia, North Carolina. County/parish: Gaston.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 17, 1983. NRIS 83001884.
2 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.
Gastonia High School is a historic high school building located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was designed by Hugh Edward White and built in 1922–1924. It is a five-story, heavily ornamented E-shaped Tudor Revival-style red brick school. It has a flat roof with parapet and features a four-bay projecting frontispiece and two-story, elegantly finished, auditorium. It has a six bays long and three bays wide addition built in 1955. In 1955, the school was renamed Frank L. Ashley High School. Ashley High School's last graduating class was in 1970.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the York-Chester Historic District.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720387