Walnut Cove Colored School
Walnut Cove, United States
The Walnut Cove Colored School is a historic Rosenwald School located in Walnut Cove, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was built in 1921 with seed funds from Sears & Roebuck financier, Julius Rosenwald with advice and counsel of the great educator, Booker t. Washington. A condition of the funding was that communities had to provide local matching funds. Communities which built the Rosenwald schools actually provided more funding than Julius Rosenwald's initial seed funds. It is a one-story, rectangular frame building with five classrooms and Bungalow / American Craftsman design elements. It has weatherboard siding, a broad clipped gable roof, large sash windows, and a projecting front vestibule. The building measures approximately 49 feet wide by 73 feet deep and rests on a brick foundation. It housed a school until 1952. It was later renovated for use as a senior citizens' community center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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