Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings associated with the Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute, also known as Western Carolina Male Academy and North Carolina College. They are the three story brick Main Building (1854-1855);

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style President's House; Matthias Barrier house; Society Hall; the Boarding House (1868); and the New Building (1925). The Western Carolina Male Academy was established in 1852 by the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The institute closed in 1933 after which, in 1941, the property was put up to auction. The

Lentz Hotel The Lentz Hotel, erected in 1853, is an historic site that is the oldest commercial building in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was moved in 1980 from its original site at the center of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina and restored. Descriptio ...

was moved inside the district boundaries in 1980. It was listed on the

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in 1979.

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University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Cabarrus County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cabarrus County, North Carolina {{CabarrusCountyNC-NRHP-stub