{"nrhp_refnum":"03000302","name":"Dudley, James Benson, Senior High School and Gymnasium","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1200 Lincoln St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.05980683300004,"lon":-79.76472991499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick former high school building (James B. Dudley Senior High School, completed 1929) and an adjoining steel-vaulted gymnasium (built 1959) at 1200 Lincoln Street in the Nocho Park neighborhood on the east side of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be significant for its role in black education in Greensboro as the city's first high school for African American students, under the education and black ethnic heritage areas. The 1959 gymnasium is argued to be a Modernist steel-vaulted free-span design that is unique in Greensboro institutional architecture, and it meets Criteria Consideration G for exceptional importance.","narrative":"Built in 1929 from designs by Greensboro architect Charles C. Hartmann, this three-story load-bearing brick school in Nocho Park combines a Classical Revival entrance with Collegiate Gothic battlements on its stair towers. It was the first high school for African Americans in Greensboro and was named for James Benson Dudley, a Wilmington native who led the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College in Greensboro from 1896 to 1925. The school served Black students through the early twentieth century and is regarded as an intact example of institutional period-revival architecture. A gymnasium completed in 1959 stands to the south. Designed by W. Edward Jenkins while he worked for Loewenstein-Atkinson Architects, its two intersecting steel arches form a free-span roof that is regarded as a rare Modernist design in Greensboro schools. The National Association of School Architects displayed a model of the gym in 1959, and the American Institute of Steel Construction gave it an award of excellence in 1960.","period_of_significance":"1929-1953","architect_builder":"Charles C. Hartmann (architect/school); W. Edward Jenkins (architect/gymnasium); H.D. Barnes (contractor/gymnasium)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival-influenced and Late Gothic Revival-influenced (Collegiate Gothic battlements); Modernist gymnasium","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Dudley High School functioned as a school until the end of the 2001-2002 academic year; the 1957 classroom wing was demolished in July 2002.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.390681-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7179/47717961/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000302.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000302/84e78c7909-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000302/84e78c7909-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Benson_Dudley_Senior_High_School_and_Gymnasium_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</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:James_Benson_Dudley_Senior_High_School_and_Gymnasium_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717961","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Dudley_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6129090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/dudley-james-benson-senior-high-school-and-gymnasium-03000302/"}