Built in 1896/7 with funds collected by the local Methodist Episcopal community, it stands on a low ridge on New Leicester Highway at the southeast edge of the former Turkey Creek Meeting Campground, a famous revival campground meeting site which existed from the late 1700s until 1893.

ft. two-story, five-bay, vernacular Colonial Revival-style brick building served the community as a private academy and teacher training institute from 1897 until 1913 when publicly funded education came to this section of Buncombe County.

It is the last remaining tuition academy building in the county.

[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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