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C. S. Brown School Auditorium

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Built
  
1926 (1926)

Opened
  
1926

Added to NRHP
  
29 July 1985

NRHP Reference #
  
85001657

Area
  
3 ha

C. S. Brown School Auditorium

Location
  
Off NC 45, Winton, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

C. S. Brown School Auditorium, also known as Brown Hall, is a historic school auditorium and national historic district located at Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story stuccoed tile block building in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a five-bay central pavilion with hip roof and flanking classroom wings. The front facade features a pedimented portico with four original Doric order columns. It is the oldest intact and unaltered building associated with the Calvin Scott Brown School, a school for African-American students founded by Calvin Scott Brown (1859–1936).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

C. S. Brown School Auditorium Wikipedia