Hamilton High School is a historic

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building complex located at

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, USA.

History

It was constructed in 1910 and is a two-story wood-frame building, constructed in a local adaptation of the

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style. It has a hipped roof topped by a

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and is two bays deep and three bays wide, with an exterior footprint of 50 feet by 57 feet. An auditorium annex was added about 1925. A second annex, an agricultural classroom building now referred to as "the cannery" was added to the property about 1930, and the Wayside School (c. 1879), a one-room schoolhouse that was moved to the property from the vicinity of nearby Sportsmen's Lake between about 1935 and 1945. an
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in 2007.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Virginia Neoclassical architecture in Virginia School buildings completed in 1910 Buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Virginia School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Defunct schools in Virginia {{CumberlandCountyVA-NRHP-stub