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.
Jarvisburg Colored School | |
 School building in 2019 | |
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| Location | 7301 NC 158, Jarvisburg, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°11′11″N 75°51′54″W / 36.18639°N 75.86500°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1911 |
| Built by | Barrett and Thomson; Ferebee, James Brown |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 09001104[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 11, 2009 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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.
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