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Buena Vista Colored School

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
03000191

Designated VLR
  
December 4, 2002

Added to NRHP
  
2 April 2003

Architectural style
  
brick school house

VLR #
  
103-5053

Phone
  
+1 540-261-1077

Buena Vista Colored School

Location
  
30th St. and Aspen Ave., Buena Vista, Virginia

Address
  
W 30th St, Buena Vista, VA 24416, USA

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Buena Vista Colored School is a historic school building for African American children located at Buena Vista, Virginia. It was built in 1914, and expanded in 1926. It is a one-story, brick structure with a hipped, sheet metal roof. Also on the property is a contributing brick outbuilding once used to store wood and coal. The building served as the only local school for African American children in grades 1-7 from 1914 to 1957. The Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society was organized in 2002 to restore the school as a museum and community center.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Buena Vista Colored School Wikipedia