Jarvisburg Colored School

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Jarvisburg Colored School
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Location7301 NC 158, Jarvisburg, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°11′11″N75°51′54″W / 36.18639°N 75.86500°W / 36.18639; -75.86500 Coordinates: 36°11′11″N75°51′54″W / 36.18639°N 75.86500°W / 36.18639; -75.86500
Arealess than one acre
Built1911 (1911)
Built byBarrett and Thomson; Ferebee, James Brown
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No. 09001104 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 11, 2009

Jarvisburg Colored School is a historic school building for African-American students located at Jarvisburg, Currituck County, North Carolina. First built as a one-room school in 1868 on land donated by Mr. William Hunt Sr, an educated African American farmer in Currituck, His gift of land included property for a church. Replaced in the 1890s with a two-room building and again expanded in 1911 to its current size. It was in service from 1868 until 1950 when Currituck opened a Consolidated School and closed all the small African American county schools. The Jarvisburg Colored School is a two-story, frame building built of cypress wood with Queen Anne style design elements. It has a gable roof and features a pyramidal roofed bell tower with the original four foot wooden spire. It last housed a school in 1950. [2] Today, the Jarvisburg Colored School serves as a Museum to share the stories of former students and histories of all the Colored Schools in Currituck County, North Carolina.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Penne Smith Sandbeck (September 2009). "Jarvisburg Colored School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)