{"nrhp_refnum":"02001668","name":"Oak Grove School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Oak Grove Circle, 0.3 mi. E of jct. with Bethabara Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.17233063600003,"lon":-80.32083208199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room, frame schoolhouse built around 1910 in the Washington Town community, just inside the northwest limit of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It served African American children near Bethania.","why_significant":"The school is locally significant under Criterion A in education and black ethnic heritage. It served African American children from about 1910 to about 1950 and reflects the grassroots funding of Black schools across the South. It is described as the only known surviving example of the county's once common one-room African American schoolhouse.","narrative":"Oak Grove School is a one-room, gable-front frame schoolhouse built around 1910 in the Washington Town community, just inside the northwest edge of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is clad in weatherboards, stands on a brick foundation, and has a metal roof, a full-width shed-roof porch with square posts and six-over-six windows. For about forty years it educated African American children from the Bethania area, with one teacher at first handling six and later seven grades. Oral tradition holds that a local African American family donated the site, a church assisted, and the community gave money and labor, a pattern common to Black schools in the early twentieth-century South. As schools consolidated, only one or two grades were taught in its last years. After closing about 1950 it became a store and was altered. A restoration starting in 1998 returned much of its character, and it is considered the only known surviving one-room African American school of its kind in the county.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1910 - ca. 1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use. A restoration begun in 1998 replaced the floor, reproduced windows, removed a mid-century partition and added a wheelchair ramp and modern bathroom and kitchen in rear shed rooms.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.576761-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/7202/47720272/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02001668.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001668/6b11490305-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001668/6b11490305-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ceh2624","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OakGroveSchool1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ceh2624</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:OakGroveSchool1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720272","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Grove_School_(Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18705982"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/oak-grove-school-02001668/"}