Ross Point School | |
Location: | Road 448 near junction with Road 62, near Laurel, Delaware |
Coordinates: | 38.5564°N -75.4542°W |
Builder: | Guilbert and Betelle, Pierre S. du Pont |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | August 17, 2001 |
Refnum: | 01000886 |
Ross Point School was a historic rural, African-American school building located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. Funding for the building was provided by Pierre S. du Pont. It was built in 1922, and was a rectangular, one-story wood-frame building in the Colonial Revival style. It had a hipped roof and cedar shingle siding. It had an entrance portico with a triangular pediment. It remained in use as school until September 24, 1964, when it was officially consolidated into the Laurel Special School District.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is listed on the Delaware Cultural and Historic Resources GIS system as destroyed or demolished.[2]