It is a three-story, "L"-plan, Classical Revival-style red brick building.

A separate Vocational Education Building was added to the school in 1939.

It sits on landscaped grounds designed by Earle Sumner Draper (1893–1994).

[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 as the Rutherfordton-Spindale Central High School.

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