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Rosenwald School (Delight, Arkansas)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
90001381

Added to NRHP
  
17 September 1990

Built
  
1938 (1938)

Opened
  
1938

Nearest city
  
Delight

Rosenwald School (Delight, Arkansas)

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Rosenwald School is a Rosenwald school on Arkansas Highway 26 in Delight, Arkansas. The school, a single-story wood frame structure with a gable roof, was built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration. Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald sponsored the Rosenwald schools to provide education for African-Americans in rural communities; the Julius Rosenwald Fund helped build 389 schools in Arkansas, including the one in Delight. The school closed in the 1970s, when many of the Rosenwald schools closed due to desegregation. It is now used as a local community center.

The Rosenwald School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1990.

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Rosenwald School (Delight, Arkansas) Wikipedia