Shackford Hall is a historic educational facility located at

Lake Junaluska Lake Junaluska is a census-designated place (CDP) in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States, and a manmade lake in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lake Junaluska is named after nearby ...

, Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a large two-story,

Classic Revival Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...

style building constructed of river rock and heavy timber. It has a T-shaped plan with cross gable roof and features a massive pedimented

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

with six two-story

Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...

columns. It stands as one of the iconic structures in the Lake Junaluska Assembly. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures completed in 1923 Buildings and structures in Haywood County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Haywood County, North Carolina Lake Junaluska, North Carolina {{HaywoodCountyNC-NRHP-stub