111 Scrabble Rd., Castleton, Virginia. County/parish: Rappahannock.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 31, 2007. NRIS 07001143.
Part of Rosenwald Schools in Virginia MPS (NRIS 64500875).
2 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites.
Scrabble School is a historic Rosenwald school for African-American children located near Castleton, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1921–1922, and is a one-story, wood-frame building clad in rough-cast stucco siding. The building sits on a poured concrete foundation. It features overhanging eaves, a wood cornice, exposed rafter tails, and decorative corner brackets in the American Craftsman style. Also on the property are the contributing concrete block coal house/shed (c. 1950) and septic tanks / privy sites (c. 1922). The school was permanently closed in 1968.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678900