It designed by architects Starrett & van Vleck in Classical Revival style.

It was built in 1923, and is a long, symmetrical, two-story building faced with dark, wire-cut bricks.

It features a central projecting pavilion that contains the school auditorium.

It was named for Charles Duncan McIver (1860–1906), founder and first president of the institution now known as The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This article about a property in Guilford County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.