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Ross Point School

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Built
  
1922 (1922)

Address
  
Laurel, DE 19956, USA

Area
  
1 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
01000886

Opened
  
1922

Added to NRHP
  
17 August 2001

Ross Point School

Location
  
Road 448 near junction with Road 62, near Laurel, Delaware

Built by
  
Guilbert and Betelle, Pierre S. du Pont

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Old Christ Church, Blackwater Presbyterian Church, All Saints Episcopal Church, Gov William H Ross Hou

Ross Point School is a historic rural, African-American school building located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. Funding for the building was provided by Pierre S. du Pont. It was built in 1922, and is a rectangular, one-story wood frame building in the Colonial Revival style. It has a hipped roof and cedar shingle siding. It has an entrance portico with a triangular pediment. It remained in use as school until September 24, 1964, when it was officially consolidated into the Laurel Special School District.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

Ross Point School Wikipedia


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