Princeville School

US 258, 0.3 mi. E of NC 64, Princeville, North Carolina. County/parish: Edgecombe.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 09, 2001. NRIS 00001615.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Princeville Graded Colored School
  • Princeville Town Hall

From Wikipedia:

Princeville School

Princeville School, also known as Princeville Graded Colored School, is a historic school for African-American students located at Princeville, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built between 1935 and 1940, and is a one-story weatherboarded building, eleven bays wide and two rooms deep, with a recessed front-gable center entrance. It sits on a high brick pier foundation and has a hipped roof. The school closed in 1960, and the building served as Princeville's town hall from 1960 until 1999.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720142