Built 1921-1922 Area 8,000 m² Added to NRHP 15 July 2015 | NRHP Reference # 15000334 Architectural style American Craftsman | |
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Location 690 State Highway 21 West, Cedar Creek, Texas | ||
Hopewell School, also known as the Hopewell-Rosenwald School, is a former African American school in Cedar Creek, Texas, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 15, 2015. The school was built in 1921-1922 with assistance from the Rosenwald Fund. The school opened in 1922 and closed in the late 1950s.
The school was initially funded by a monetary and a land grant from Martin and Sophia MacDonald of Bastrop County and the Rosenwald Fund. It was built by local residents to educate young African American children during the early to mid 1900’s, a time of racial segregation in the United States.
Restoration
After the school closed, the building fell into disrepair. In 2015, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative awarded a $50,000 capital grant to the Hopewell-Rosenwald Community School Project to help convert the building into a community center. Workers from American YouthWorks will help with the repairs.