Architect Gaudreau and Gaudreau Area 2 ha Added to NRHP 12 December 2002 | NRHP Reference # 02001491 Year built 1896 | |
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Location 355 W. Duck Creek Rd.,
Clayton, Delaware Architectural style Italianate, Colonial Revival | ||
St. Joseph's Industrial School is a historic school and historic district located at Clayton, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses three contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and three contributing objects. They are the Italianate-style Chapel (1896), Colonial Revival-style Administration Building and Rectory (1951), St. Michael's Hall (1960), the Entry Arch (1896), and three figural marble religious statues.
The school was founded by the St. Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart and opened in 1896 as an educational institution for young African American men during the time of segregation. The school was closed by the Josephite Society in 1972 who then established the St. Joseph Center for Prayer at the facility in 1973. In March 2002, the St. Joseph's Project Foundation purchased the property and secured a charter school to rehabilitate and occupy the buildings.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
A Marine Corps JROTC school known as First State Military Academy (part of the New Tech Network) has now taken up the property as of 2014, still using the three main buildings.