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Front, Rockford Grade School [now Andy Griffith Playhouse]

Rockford Grade School (Mount Airy, N.C.)
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Item information

Title:
Front, Rockford Grade School [now Andy Griffith Playhouse]
Topics:
Architecture
Subjects:
Arches
Copings
Facades
Porticoes
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ncar_N_85_9_232
Photographer:
Dickinson, P.S. more info on Dickinson, P.S. 
Created Date:
Genre:
Architectural photographs
Location:
Surry County (N.C.)
Digital Project:
Beaux Arts to Modernism

Source information

Repository:
State Archives of North Carolina
Collection:
Division of Archives and History Photograph Collection (State Archives of North Carolina Collection 4.1) held by State Archives of North Carolina
Note field:
Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
Rights:
Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the North Carolina State Archives.
Funding:
Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Building: Rockford Grade School (Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina)

Architect:
more info on Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 
Built:
Street:
218 Rockford Street
Community:
Mount Airy
State:
North Carolina
Zip:
27030
Location:
Mount Airy (N.C.)
Subjects:
Elementary school buildings
Latitude, Longitude:
36.497574, -80.608693