Dallas County Training School High School Building

United States historic place


Dallas County Training School High School Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


33°49′1″N 92°24′7″W / 33.81694°N 92.40194°W / 33.81694; -92.40194
Area	less than one acre
Built	1931 (1931)
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.	03001455^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 21, 2004

The Dallas County Training School High School Building is a historic school building at 934 Center Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. Built in 1934 with funding from the Rosenwald Fund, it was the only high school serving African Americans in a four-county region of southern Arkansas until 1940. Its original block is a rectangular brick structure with a gable-on-hip roof; a flat-roof addition was made to the rear in 1954. The building house grades 6-12 of African Americans until 1970, when the city's schools were integrated. At that time it became an elementary school, and was finally closed in 2001.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Dallas County Training School High School Building". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-07-04.