Jct. of Court St. and Holmes Terr., Freehold, New Jersey. County/parish: Monmouth.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 04, 1995. NRIS 95001003.
1 contributing building.
The Court Street School is located in Freehold Borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The original school was organized in 1915 as an African American-only school by the Freehold Board of Education as a one-room wooden building. The existing school building was built in two phases, in 1920 and 1926. All African Americans in Freehold were educated at this school from kindergarten through eighth grade. During World War 2, the school was used as an air raid shelter and a ration station.
Due to pressure from wartime veterans, a court ordered that the school be racially integrated, where it reopened to serve kindergarten through third grade in 1949. The school eventually closed in 1974. In 1990, the school became an education community center and historic landmark for African American history. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1995.
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