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Magnolia Colored School Historic District

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Built
  
1940 (1940)

Opened
  
1940

Added to NRHP
  
22 January 2014

NRHP Reference #
  
13001103

Area
  
1 ha

Magnolia Colored School Historic District

Location
  
611 S. Madison St., Magnolia, Arkansas

Magnolia colored school historic district top 7 facts


The Magnolia Colored School Historic District encompasses the historic Magnolia Colored School, a school facility serving the African-American population of Magnolia, Arkansas, between 1915 and 1969. It occupies a city block bounded by Madison, School, and Ross Streets, and includes four buildings built between c. 1940 and 1965. The main building, the Magnolia Colored High School, is a single-story building with Plain-Traditional styling built in 1948 after a fired destroyed the 1940 building. The complex also includes an auditorium, shop building, and home economics building. The c. 1940 shop and home economics buildings survived the 1948 fire, but the shop was torn down in 1964 to make way for the auditorium, and a new shop building was also built. In 1950 the school's name was changed to Columbia County High School, and was also known for a time as Columbia High School. A grade school, cafeteria, and gymnasium which were all originally part of the complex were torn down between 1994 and 2000.

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

References

Magnolia Colored School Historic District Wikipedia