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Booker T. Washington Community Center

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Built
  
1936 (1936)

Opened
  
1936

Phone
  
+1 540-885-1899

Added to NRHP
  
3 September 2014

NRHP Reference #
  
14000550

Area
  
9,300 m²

Architectural style
  
Art Deco

Booker T. Washington Community Center

Location
  
1114 West Johnson Street, Staunton, Virginia

Address
  
1114 W Johnson St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA

Similar
  
Blue Ridge Mountains, Montgomery Hall Park, Gypsy Hill Park, Woodrow Wilson President, Staunton National Cemetery

Booker t washington community center


The Booker T. Washington Community Center is a community center at 1114 West Johnson Street in Staunton, Virginia. It is located in the former Booker T. Washington High School for Coloreds, a two-story Art Deco brick building designed by Raymond V. Long and built in 1936. A 1960 addition to the rear of the building has a more Modern treatment. It was the Staunton area's only high school for African-American students for thirty years, and one of its few meeting points for African-American organizations until the city's public facilities were integrated. The school was closed in 1966, and was used by the Staunton Police Department from 1967 to 1986.

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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Booker T. Washington Community Center Wikipedia