Ravenscroft School (Asheville, North Carolina)

	Ravenscroft School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	Ravenscroft School, September 2012
Location	29 Ravenscroft Dr., Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°35′29″N 82°33′15″W / 35.59139°N 82.55417°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1845
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	78001935
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1978

Ravenscroft School, also known as Chateau Nollman, is a historic school building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The oldest section was built about 1845, and is a two- to three-story brick building in the Greek Revival style. It consists of a squat, three-story, pyramidal-roofed tower with projecting two-story rectangular wings. The building has a number of later additions including a two-story brick wing and two-story frame wing. It was originally built as a residence, and housed a school from 1856 to the turn of the 20th century. It was used as a boarding or rooming house until 1977.^[2]^[3] The building is currently used as office space.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1] It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ David Black and Jim Sumner (n.d.). "Ravenscroft School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
^ Slusser., Dale Wayne (2013). Ravenscroft School in Asheville : a History of the Institution and Its People and Buildings. McFarland. ISBN 1299954219. OCLC 859379458.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] David Black and Jim Sumner (n.d.). "Ravenscroft School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.

[3] Slusser., Dale Wayne (2013). Ravenscroft School in Asheville : a History of the Institution and Its People and Buildings. McFarland. ISBN 1299954219. OCLC 859379458.

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