Freetown Rosenwald School Explained

Freetown Rosenwald School
Location:7825 Freetown Rd., Glen Burnie, Maryland
Coordinates:39.1408°N -76.5772°W
Built:1924
Architecture:Rosenwald Two Room Shop-B
Added:September 12, 2007
Mpsub:Rosenwald Schools of Anne Arundel County, Maryland MPS
Refnum:07000943

Freetown Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school building in the historic African American community of Freetown at Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a simple, one-story, gable-roofed, rectangular frame building. The exterior walls are sheathed in aluminum siding and the gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles and displays minimal overhang. It was built in 1924–25, by the school construction program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, to serve the local African American community. It is one of ten Rosenwald Schools surviving in Anne Arundel County.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Freetown Rosenwald School . January 2007. 2016-01-01 . Lillie Caldwell. Maryland Historical Trust.