Freetown Rosenwald School

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Freetown Rosenwald School
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Freetown Rosenwald School, December 2009
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Location7825 Freetown Rd., Glen Burnie, Maryland
Coordinates 39°8′27″N76°34′38″W / 39.14083°N 76.57722°W / 39.14083; -76.57722
Area1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built1924
Architectural styleRosenwald Two Room Shop-B
MPS Rosenwald Schools of Anne Arundel County, Maryland MPS
NRHP reference No. 07000943 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 12, 2007

Freetown Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school building in the historic African American community of Freetown at Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a simple, one-story, gable-roofed, rectangular frame building. The exterior walls are sheathed in aluminum siding and the gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles and displays minimal overhang. It was built in 1924–25, by the school construction program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, to serve the local African American community. It is one of ten Rosenwald Schools surviving in Anne Arundel County. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Lillie Caldwell (January 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Freetown Rosenwald School" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.