Stuart W. Cramer High School - Cramerton, NC
N 35° 14.728 W 081° 03.566
17S E 494593 N 3900266
Stuart W. Cramer High School built in 2013 in Cramerton, North Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM18TEA
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2023
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The Place:
Stuart W. Cramer High School is a public high school in the Gaston County Schools district located in Cramerton, North Carolina (though its mailing address says Belmont). Its attendance range covers the central portion of eastern Gaston County and includes all of the towns of Cramerton and McAdenville and portions of Belmont and Mount Holly.
The building has 268,000 square feet of built floor space, and is currently built to house 1,200 students. The school was designed for expansion to 288,214 square feet of floor space to accommodate expansion to 1,500 students. The school, set on 90 acres of campus, was featured as one of eleven model examples in American School and University magazine's 2014 Architectural Portfolio, recognizing it as a national model in educational architectural design. Its football stadium was built at the time of school opening, seating 3000 people and featuring the first artificial turf field in the county.-
Stuart W. Cramer High School
The Person
Stuart Warren Cramer (March 31, 1868 – July 2, 1940) was an American engineer, inventor, and contractor, who gained prominence after designing and building near 150 cotton mills in the southern United States. He was the founder of Cramerton and became involved in the nascent air conditioning industry, as well as being a founding partner in Duke Power.
In a May 1906 speech in Asheville, North Carolina, before the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, Cramer coined the term air conditioning. Cramer's connection to air conditioning originated from his work in the textile industry. Over the course of his career he acquired more than 60 patents for the humidity control and ventilating equipment he developed for cotton mills across the South.-
Stuart W. Cramer