North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources State Historic Preservation Office Ramona M. Bartos, Administrator Governor Roy Cooper Secretary D. Reid Wilson April 29, 2021 MEMORANDUM TO: Kate Husband, Architectural Historian
[email protected] NCDOT Environmental Analysis Unit Architectural History Group FROM: Renee Gledhill-Earley Environmental Review Coordinator SUBJECT: Replace Bridge No. 184 over Cabriel Creek on SR 1355 (Bailey Street), Mars Hill, PA 19-05-0025, Madison County, ER 21-0935 Thank you for your April 6, 2021, memorandum forwarding the Historic Structures Survey Report for the above-referenced undertaking. We have reviewed the report and offer the following comments. MD0052 (Mars Hill College Historic District) Though not formally reevaluated in the report, the consultant implies through the evaluation of the Chambers Gymnasium and Harrell Pool that the Mars Hill College Historic District (MD0052), which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 for its significance under Criteria A, B, and C, remains eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. We concur. MD0315 (Chambers Gymnasium & Harrell Pool) We concur that the Chambers Gymnasium and Harrell Pool (MD0315) is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as an expansion of and contributing resource within the existing Mars Hill College Historic District. The report appears to contain a discrepancy about the significance of the resource to the district. The table of evaluated resources on page 1-1 indicates that the Chambers Gymnasium and Harrell Pool are significant under Criterion A only, while the Evaluation on page 4-35 suggests that it is significant under Criteria A and C.