Jct. of White and Posten Aves., Morgantown, West Virginia. County/parish: Monongalia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 28, 1992. NRIS 92000896.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Second Ward Negro Elementary School, also known as the Second Ward Annex, is a historic school building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a one-story, plus basement, T-shaped brick building in the Art Deco style. It sits on a sandstone foundation. Funds for the building's construction were provided by the Works Progress Administration. It functioned as a school for African American students and a community center until the end of segregation in 1954. The building reopened as a school annex and Instructional Materials Center in the 1960s, but ceased being used as a school in 1993.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535761