Millwood Colored School

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Millwood Colored School

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Millwood Community Center, originally Millwood Colored School
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Location 1610 Millwood Rd., Boyce, Virginia
Coordinates 39°04′29″N78°02′31″W / 39.0748°N 78.0419°W / 39.0748; -78.0419 Coordinates: 39°04′29″N78°02′31″W / 39.0748°N 78.0419°W / 39.0748; -78.0419
Area 0.7 acres (0.28 ha)
Built 1910 (1910)
NRHP reference # 00001431 [1]
VLR # 021-0192-0008
Significant dates
Added to NRHP November 22, 2000
Designated VLR September 13, 2000 [2]

Millwood Colored School, now known as Millwood Community Center, is a historic school building for African-American children located at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It was built about 1910, and is a one-story, hip-roofed school has a two-room plan with coat closets, and a kitchen. The building measures approximately 60 feet long and 30 feet wide. It features a recessed entry, two entrance doors, overhanging eaves with scalloped exposed rafter ends, double-hung windows with wooden tracery, five-panel doors, and sits on a limestone foundation. It was used as an elementary school until 1952, then sold to the Millwood Good Will Association for use as a community center. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Maral S. Kalbian (June 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Millwood Colored School" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo