The high school building was built in 1910–1911, and enlarged and renovated in 1929–1930.

It is a two-story, 12 classroom Colonial Revival-style brick building.

Two other buildings associated with the High Point Normal & Industrial Institute are on the property.

They were built about 1910 and are a gable end frame structure sheathed in corrugated metal with a distinctive monitor roof and a brick building with a low pitched roof.

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