Main Building, Mitchell College is a historic building located on the campus of

Mitchell Community College Mitchell Community College is a public community college with its main campus in Statesville, North Carolina and a second campus in Mooresville, North Carolina. It is part of the North Carolina Community College System. History The school ...

at Statesville,

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. It was built in 1854–1856, and is a three-story

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ed brick building with a heroic hexastyle

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in the

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style. It is T-shaped in plan, 13 bays wide and 3 bays deep, with a five-bay-deep and three-bay-wide wing. Atop the roof is an octagonal wooden

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. An east wing, Shearer Music Hall, was added to the structure in 1907. It was listed on the

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in 1973. It is located in the Mitchell College Historic District.

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