Booker T. Washington High School | |
Coordinates: | 38.1478°N -79.0814°W |
Architect: | Raymond V. Long |
Architecture: | Art Deco |
Added: | September 3, 2014 |
Refnum: | 14000550 |
The Booker T. Washington Community Center is a community center at 1114 West Johnson Street in Staunton, Virginia. It is located in the former Booker T. Washington High School for Coloreds, a two-story Art Deco brick building designed by Raymond V. Long and built in 1936. A 1960 addition to the rear of the building has a more Modern treatment. It was the Staunton area's only high school for African-American students for thirty years, and one of its few meeting points for African-American organizations until the city's public facilities were integrated. The school was closed in 1966, and was used by the Staunton Police Department from 1967 to 1986.[1]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.