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Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children

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NRHP Reference #
  
05000125

Designated NJRHP
  
January 6, 2005

Added to NRHP
  
9 March 2005

NJRHP #
  
4390

Area
  
3,040 m²

Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children

Location
  
35 Quarry Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08542

Built
  
1858 (184 Witherspoon) 1909 (35 Quarry Street)

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Donald Grant Herring E, Princeton Ice Company, Maybury Hill, Princeton Historic District, Tusculum

The Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children educated the African-American children of Princeton, New Jersey from 1858 until the Princeton Public Schools were integrated in 1948. The school was originally located at the building still standing at 184 Witherspoon Street. As enrollment increased it moved, in 1909, to 35 Quarry Street, the building which bears the National Register of Historic Places designation. The Quarry Street building was expanded in 1939 and again in 1966, giving it its present appearance. The former school has since been turned into an apartment building.

References

Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children Wikipedia


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