25499 Florence St., Courtland, Virginia. County/parish: Southampton.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 15, 2016. NRIS 16000539.
Part of Rosenwald Schools in Virginia MPS (NRIS 64500875).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Courtland School is a historic Rosenwald school at 25499 Florence Street in Courtland, Virginia. It is a single-story clapboarded wood-frame structure, built to a standard two-teacher plan developed by the Rosenwald Fund for such buildings. It is covered by a bracketed metal gable roof, and has modest Craftsman styling. It was built in 1928, and served as a segregated school for area African-American students until 1963. It was then purchased by a community group for use as a community center.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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