Second Ward Negro Elementary School | |
Location: | Jct. of White and Posten Aves., Morgantown, West Virginia |
Coordinates: | 39.6214°N -79.9492°W |
Built: | 1939 |
Architect: | Tucker & Silling; Russell, John W. |
Architecture: | Art Deco |
Added: | July 28, 1992 |
Refnum: | 92000896 |
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.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.