Built 1939 Opened 1939 Architectural style Art Deco | NRHP Reference # 92000896 Area 7,700 m² Added to NRHP 28 July 1992 | |
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Location Jct. of White and Posten Aves., Morgantown, West Virginia Similar Cheat Lake, West Virginia University, Monongalia Arts Center, Dorsey Knob | ||
Second Ward Negro Elementary School, also known as the Second Ward Annex, is a historic school building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1938-1939, and is a one-story, plus basement, "T"-shaped brick building in the Art Deco style. It sits on a sandstone foundation. Funds for the building's construction were provided by the Works Progress Administration. It functioned as a school for African American students and a community center until the end of segregation in 1954. The building reopened as a school annex and Instructional Materials Center in the 1960s, but ceased being used as a school in 1993.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.