Snow Hill Colored High School Explained

Snow Hill Colored High School
Location:602A W. Harper St., Snow Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.4494°N -77.6728°W
Built:, c. 1935
Architecture:Rosenwald School
Added:August 28, 2003
Refnum:03000853

Snow Hill Colored High School, also known as Greene County Colored Training School and Rosenwald Center for Cultural Enrichment, is a historic Rosenwald School building located at Snow Hill, Greene County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925, and is a one-story, seven-bay, H-shaped brick building. A six classroom addition was built about 1935. Also on the property are the contributing Mary M. Battle Monument (c. 1925) and baseball field (c. 1935, c. 1950). The Snow Hill Colored High School is one of five schools that were constructed using Rosenwald funds in Greene County, including the Zachariah School.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

JoAnn Artis Stevens - Rosenwald Center for Cultural Enrichment.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nancy Van Dolsen. Snow Hill Colored High School . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . April 2003. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.