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Public School No. 111 C

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Built
  
1923 (1923)

Opened
  
1923

Added to NRHP
  
18 October 1979

NRHP Reference #
  
79000625

Area
  
8,000 m²

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Location
  
50 N. Old Baltimore Pike, Christiana, Delaware

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Public School No. 111-C is a historic rural school building located at Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1923, and consists of a one story, balloon frame, gambrel-roofed main block containing the classrooms with three small wings housing the furnace room, wash rooms and work and lunch room. The building is in the Colonial Revival style. It is an example of the schools for African American children built in the 1920s by progressive philanthropist Pierre S. du Pont (1870–1954).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Public School No. 111-C Wikipedia