Title: The Ravenscroft School in Asheville :
Authors: Slusser, Dale Wayne,
Date: 2014
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
Physical description: xii, 224 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: "The Ravenscroft School, a 19th-century Episcopal boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina, from 1856 to 1901, had three distinct phases. Although the school itself was only in existence for about 45 years, the purview of this book is from the early days of Asheville to the building of Joseph Osborne's mansion in the 1840s"--
Contents: Mountains, mansions, and missionaries : 1800-1849 -- Reading, 'riting, and rectors : 1850-1864 -- Post-war : postulants and priests : 1865-1883 -- Redirection : rectors and Ravenscroft High : 1884-1897 -- Buxton Hill, bishops, and boarding houses : 1898-1950 -- Postscript : peril or preservation? : 1951-2010 -- Ravenscroft boys : biographical notes of notable alumni -- Histories of Ravenscroft Association mission churches.
Subject headings (LCSH): Boarding schools--North Carolina--Asheville--History.; Church schools--North Carolina--Asheville--History.; North Carolina--Church history.; Ravenscroft High School for Boys (Asheville, N.C.)--History.; Ravenscroft School (Raleigh, N.C.)--History.