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Peake High School

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Bungalow/craftsman

Opened
  
1928

Built
  
1928 (1928)

NRHP Reference #
  
04001499

Added to NRHP
  
19 January 2005

Peake High School httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
1600 Caddo St., Arkadelphia, Arkansas

The Peake High School is a historic school building at 1600 Caddo Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. This H-shaped single-story brick building was built in 1929 with assistance from the Rosenwald Fund on land given by J. Ed Peake, a school principal for whom the school was named. The building was used as a high school for African Americans until 1960, when a new building was constructed adjacent to this one, which was converted to an elementary school. The city's public schools were integrated in 1969. The school housed the city's Head Start Program from 1984 to 2001. It is the only surviving Rosenwald school in the county.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Peake High School Wikipedia