Richmond Hill Law School

Historic school building in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Richmond Hill Law School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Richmond Hill Law School, October 2011
36°16′4″N 80°36′46″W / 36.26778°N 80.61278°W / 36.26778; -80.61278
Area	9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
Built	1848 (1848)
NRHP reference No.	70000483^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1970

Richmond Hill Law School is a historic home and law school building located near Richmond Hill, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three-bay, "T"-plan, brick building. It has a low hipped roof and deep overhang. It was built as the home and law school of jurist Richmond Mumford Pearson.

Among those who studied at the school were Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson, State Chief Justices William A. Hoke and David Furches, U.S. District Judge Thomas Settle, Congressman William H. H. Cowles, Governors John W. Ellis, Daniel Gould Fowle and Robert B. Glenn,^[2] and two-term Mayor of Charlotte, NC, William Johnston. The property is owned by the Yadkin County Historical Society.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ NC Historical Marker
^ J.G. Zehmer and Sherry I. Penney (June 1970). "Richmond Hill Law School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-07-01.