{"nrhp_refnum":"02001219","name":"Main High School","other_names":["Main Colored School"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"41 Washington Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rome","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.25777942250005,"lon":-85.15421125886084,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A school campus district at 41 Washington Drive in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, built for the city's African-American students. It has a 1934 Colonial Revival classroom building and later International Style buildings from the 1950s and 1960s.","why_significant":"For about 75 years the campus was the only public school available to Rome's Black students, and it offered a full academic curriculum rather than the vocational program common at segregated schools. Its buildings are also argued to be good examples of school architecture, from Colonial Revival in the 1930s to International Style in the 1950s and 1960s. The period of significance runs to 1969, when the school closed after desegregation.","narrative":"Main High School is a hillside campus in Rome, Georgia, built to serve the city's African-American students. Its oldest surviving building is a one-story, red brick Colonial Revival classroom building from 1934, enlarged in 1938-39 with an auditorium and two classrooms designed by Atlanta architect Odis Clay Poundstone. Between 1955 and 1963 the city added six flat-roofed International Style buildings, including a gymnasium, a 1958 high school and elementary school buildings, to relieve chronic overcrowding. The campus was the only public school available to Rome's Black students for about 75 years. It is distinguished from many segregated schools in Georgia because it taught a complete academic curriculum, including English, history, science, math and music, rather than vocational skills alone. Rome's schools began desegregating in 1966, and Main High School closed in 1969. Seven buildings contribute to the district, and four later buildings do not. The campus keeps a high level of historic integrity and is still used for education-related purposes.","period_of_significance":"1934-1969","architect_builder":"Poundstone, Odis Clay (architect); Roberts, J.P. (builder); Townsend, R. L. (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Modern Movement: International Style","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The campus still serves education-related uses. The 1934 building is used for storage, the 1958 high school houses a transitional academy and a technology center, the gymnasium is used by a youth club, and the noncontributing elementary school remains in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.282429-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02001219.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207996","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/main-high-school-02001219/"}