Benjamin Banneker School

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Benjamin Banneker School
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Location31 W. Eighth St., Parkville, Missouri
Coordinates 39°11′34″N94°41′6″W / 39.19278°N 94.68500°W / 39.19278; -94.68500 Coordinates: 39°11′34″N94°41′6″W / 39.19278°N 94.68500°W / 39.19278; -94.68500
Arealess than one acre
Built1885 (1885)
NRHP reference No. 95001115 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1995

Benjamin Banneker School is a historic one-room school building located at Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1885, and is a one-story, red brick building with gable roof. It measures approximately 34 feet by 18 feet and sits on a rubble limestone foundation with basement. It served as the primary school for African-American students until about 1902, when a new school was constructed. It has been converted to a private residence. [2] :5

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]

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A United States postage stamp and the names of a number of recreational and cultural facilities, schools, streets and other facilities and institutions throughout the United States have commemorated Benjamin Banneker's documented and mythical accomplishments throughout the years since he lived (1731–1806). Among such memorializations of this free African American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics, astronomy and natural history was a biographical verse that Rita Dove, a future Poet Laureate of the United States, wrote in 1983 while on the faculty of Arizona State University.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Jean Rau, Beverly A. Fleming, and Steven E. Mitchell (June 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Benjamin Banneker School" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (includes 8 photographs from 1995)