{"nrhp_refnum":"02000146","name":"Garland Community School Teacherage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"TX 2, 2.5 mi. W of Dekalb","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dekalb","county":"Bowie County","state":"TX","lat":33.516219705000026,"lon":-94.66997350199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame Craftsman-style teachers' house (teacherage) built in 1923 in the Garland Community, about 2.5 miles west of Dekalb, Bowie County, Texas, in a rural farming setting.","why_significant":"It is one of only two known surviving teachers' homes in Texas built with Julius Rosenwald Fund money for African American education. It is nominated under Criterion A in the areas of Education and Ethnic Heritage: African American. It housed teachers in a community founded by formerly enslaved families and became a social and civic center for the area.","narrative":"Built in 1923 about 2.5 miles west of Dekalb, this one-story Craftsman house served as a teacherage for the Garland Community School in Bowie County. It is a wood-frame building on brick piers, with weatherboard siding, a hipped roof with wide eaves, a gabled porch on the east side, and an L-shaped plan with four bedrooms, living and dining rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Funding came from the Julius Rosenwald school building program, which supported education for African Americans in the rural South. Only two such teachers' homes are known to survive in Texas. The Garland community was founded shortly after emancipation by formerly enslaved families, and the teacherage gave teachers housing in an area with few options for them. It also became a social and civic center and set a building standard for nearby homes. Teachers lived there until about 1950. The house is now vacant, uninhabitable and awaiting stabilization and restoration.","period_of_significance":"1923-1951","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th Century American Movements: Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Described as presently uninhabitable and in need of roof and foundation stabilization; the owners' family is developing a preservation plan and seeking a grant to restore it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.169401-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/9713/40971350/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/02000146.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971350","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000242"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bowie-county/garland-community-school-teacherage-02000146/"}