{"nrhp_refnum":"01000494","name":"Hiram Colored School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of GA 92 bet. jct. of Fitzgerald and Ragsdale Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hiram","county":"Paulding County","state":"GA","lat":33.88144996300008,"lon":-84.76002454399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame former African-American school built in 1930 in Hiram, Paulding County, Georgia, on a 1.7-acre lot beside State Route 92. It follows the Rosenwald Fund's \"Two Teacher Community School\" plan.","why_significant":"The school was built with money from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and is the only Rosenwald school in Paulding County. It is significant statewide for Ethnic Heritage: African-American, education, and architecture, as an excellent example of a Rosenwald-designed school. It taught first through ninth grades and had the only library among the county's Black schools.","narrative":"Built in 1930 in Hiram, Georgia, this one-story wood-frame building served as a school for the area's Black children until 1955. It was constructed from the Rosenwald Fund's \"Two Teacher Community School\" plan, with two open classrooms divided by a movable partition, an industrial room, cloak rooms and a built-in library. The $3,010 cost was shared among the Black community, white residents, the public school system and the Rosenwald Fund. It was the only Rosenwald school in Paulding County, and the only Black school there with a library of 130 books. Students attended first through ninth grades, and only one other Black school in the county offered ninth grade. After the county consolidated its Black schools, the building was sold in 1955 to Sweet Home Baptist Church, which uses it as a community center. Its tongue-and-groove pine interior, partition track and ribbon-window openings survive, and these features support its recognition for ethnic heritage, education and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1930-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"no style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Sold to Sweet Home Baptist Church in 1955; now used as a community center and for church and community events. Original windows replaced, but historic openings and interior features remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.10906-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01000494.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000494/1e371c8d81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000494/1e371c8d81-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hiram_Colored_School_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hiram_Colored_School_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209233","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Colored_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105671660"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/paulding-county/hiram-colored-school-01000494/"}