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Millwood Colored School

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Built
  
1910 (1910)

VLR #
  
021-0192-0008

Opened
  
1910

Added to NRHP
  
22 November 2000

NRHP Reference #
  
00001431

Designated VLR
  
September 13, 2000

Area
  
2,800 m²

Millwood Colored School httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
1610 Millwood Rd., Boyce, Virginia

Millwood Colored School, now known as Millwood Community Center, is a historic school building for African-American children located at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It was built about 1910, and is a one-story, hip-roofed school has a two-room plan with coat closets, and a kitchen. The building measures approximately 60 feet long and 30 feet wide. It features a recessed entry, two entrance doors, overhanging eaves with scalloped exposed rafter ends, double-hung windows with wooden tracery, five-panel doors, and sits on a limestone foundation. It was used as an elementary school until 1952, then sold to the Millwood Good Will Association for use as a community center.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Millwood Colored School Wikipedia