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Rosenwald Schools[edit]
The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee Institute.[1]
Rosenwald schools in Amherst County, Virginia[edit]
| Name | Built[2][3] | Location | City | Status[2][3] | Note[2][3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst School | 1923-24 | 132 School Rd | Amherst | standing, derelict | 4-teacher design; The main school building is gone. Remaining cafeteria building is built into the hillside, the rear opening out in an English basement style. |
| Lovingston School | 1923-24 | vicinity of 664 Kings Rd | Madison Heights | demolished | 2-teacher design; |
| Mt. Airy School | 1922-23 | uncertain | Amherst | demolished | 2-teacher design; Described in the 1941 ACPS Engineer’s report as “one mile from Faulconerville Store on Old Stage Road.”; one-story frame building, relatively large. This school had electric lights and was heated with stoves. It also had coal stoves in a kitchen for cooking.(Coolwell area now off N. Coolwell Road)[2] |
| New Glasgow School | 1924-25 | 2030 Boxwood Farm Road | Amherst | standing, residence | 2-teacher design; |
| St. Mary School | intersection of routes 713 and 621 | Amherst | partially demolished | 2-teacher design; The school itself is gone, likely stood behind St. Mary Baptist, to the west. There is an extant privy and kitchen facility still standing that likely dates to the school's period, to the northwest of the church[2] | |
| Union Hill School | 1922-23 | near 575 Union Hill Road | Amherst | demolished | 1-teacher design |
References[edit]
- ^ Deutsch, Stephanie (2015). You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-3127-7.
- ^ a b c d e "Rosenwald School Architectural Survey". Preservation Virginia. Preservation Virginia. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ a b c "Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database". Fisk University. Retrieved 27 February 2022.