731 Jefferson Ave., Cape Girardeau, Missouri. County/parish: Cape Girardeau.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 12, 2009. NRIS 09000300.
Jefferson School was an elementary school building located at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It was built in 1904, and is a two-story, red brick and stone elementary school building with a raised sandstone foundation and hipped roof. It featured a bell tower rising above the roofline. It operated as the city's elementary school for African-American students from 1953–1955, when it closed. It was demolished on December 28, 2012.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63818519