Pleasant Retreat Academy
# Pleasant Retreat Academy

Pleasant Retreat Academy is a historic building located at 129 East Pine Street, Lincolnton, North Carolina.

## History

Pleasant Retreat Academy was built between 1817 and 1820, and is a two-story brick building, four bays wide and two deep, on a low fieldstone foundation in a restrained Federal-style. It has a gable roof and a partially exposed, single-shoulder chimney on each gable end. The school remained in operation until about 1878. It later housed a private residence, private school, and the Lincoln County Public Library until 1965. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

## Former pupils

* William Graham (1804–1875), American politician
* James Henderson (1808–1858), American politician
* Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate States Army general
* Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician
