Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Franklin County Building at Louisburg College, March 12, 1926

FRANKLIN COUNTY BUILDING, LOUISBURG COLLEGE

(Size 148’ 6” x 55” – four stories)

This building will contain10 large classrooms, a library with stack room and two reading rooms, and 44 dormitory rooms, with capacity for 88 boarding students.

Now is the time to build the Franklin County Building. The building will be needed when school opens for the fall term in September. The local committee desires to complete the $60,000 fund on or before March 20th, at which time bids will be called for. The College Executive Committee will meet on or before April 1, 1926, to let the contract for the erection of the Franklin County Building, providing all conditions are met.

Executive Committee:--Rev. M.T. Plyler, Chairman, F.B. McKinne, Secretary, D.W. Newsom, W.E. White, Rev. A.J. Paker.

If you have not already done so, hand your subscription to one of the Trustees of the Franklin County Building Fund, at once. M.S. Clifton, Farmers and Merchants Bank, Louisburg; F.J. Bensley, First National Bank, Louisburg; A.W. Mohn, Louisburg College, Louisburg.

From the front page of The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., Friday, March 12, 1926

To see the architect’s drawing of the proposed Franklin County Building, go to:

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020791/1926-03-12/ed-1/seq-1/

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