Kiblah School | |
Nearest City: | Doddridge, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 33.0533°N -93.8669°W |
Architect: | Rosenwald |
Architecture: | Bungalow/craftsman |
Added: | November 20, 1989 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 88003210 |
The Kiblah School is a historic school building in rural Miller County, Arkansas. It is located southeast of Doddridge, at the junction of County Roads 4 and 192, between United States Route 71 and the Red River. The building is a single-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, topped by a gable-on-hip roof. It has modest Craftsman styling, with some Greek Revival influences. The main entrance is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch supported by Craftsman-style columns. It has a transom window reminiscent of Greek Revival doorways. The school was built in 1927 with funding from the Rosenwald Fund (although it was not built to a standard Rosenwald plan), and was intended to serve the African-American community of Kiblah, which was established after the American Civil War by former slaves from a Louisiana plantation.[1]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.