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38 OMB No. 1024 -0018 NPS Fort 10 -900 -a () United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 3 Mumhey School name of property grange County, NC county and state - building at the northeast comer of the boiler room. There is a doorway on the east elevation of the boiler room below grade and concrete stairs that lead downward towards the door. The top half of the boiler room walls and the roof has been destroyed. interior of main building (See attached floor plan ); The school's plan is arranged in a double - loaded east -west running corridor with six primary rooms. The front entrance opens directly into what could have been a classroom. However, according to oral history source Mike Giovanni, it is possible that the side entrance located on the east elevation was used by students as the primary entrance to the school. The central classroom containing the front entry opens into the central corridor. Boys' and girls' bathrooms are located to the south off entry foyers at each end of the corridor to the east and west. Double -doors with ten - light transoms and glazing in the upper halves separate the east and west end foyers from the hallway, auditorium, and secondary exits. The two central rooms on the south portion of the building are combined through an opening in their shared wall to make a combined library /cafeteria room. A portion at the east end of the combination room was partitioned for use as the principal's office. Due to the creation of the principal's office, there is no door from the eastern section of the library/cafeteria. To the west of the library/cafeteria is the kitchen which has a pass - through window on the north side of the shared wall. All other rooms contain an original wooden five - horizontal -panel door with a metal or glass doorknob. Each room also contains one high, eight-light casement window that opens to the hallway for ventilation purposes. The oak floors are substantially intact but portions have been removed due to damage. The walls are plaster except for the horizontal bead -board wainscoting that extends a little more than halfway up the wall in the hallway. The baseboards and window and door surrounds are simple. An original decorative pressed -metal ceiling treatment and a narrow pressed - metal egg- and -dart crown molding still exists, though damaged, in most of the rooms. The bathrooms retain their original toilets and urinals contained in bead -board stalls. The floors in both the girls' and boys' bathrooms are concrete and the sinks appear to date to c. 1955- 1975.. Auditorium Addition Exterior: The Murphey School auditorium is remarkably intact, containing nearly all of its original materials, windows, and architectural features. Added to the main building in 1936 and neoclassical in style with a classical Doric portico supported by four square4n- section paneled columns, the brick auditorium is a tail one -story building rectangular in plan with a wooden cornice and wide frieze. The portico does not extend the full width of the auditorium and its pediment is punctuated by a lunette window with a keystone in its center with a simple wooden cornice and frieze. The auditorium and its portico have front -gable v -crimp metal covered roofs with a small arched eyebrow dormer on the east and west roof slopes of the