{"nrhp_refnum":"03000475","name":"State Teachers and Agricultural College for Negroes Women's Dormitory and Teachers' Cottage","other_names":["Hubbard Training School Dormitory","Hubbard School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Martin Luther King Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Forsyth","county":"Monroe County","state":"GA","lat":33.02353476500008,"lon":-83.95432067399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two surviving brick buildings, a 1936 Colonial Revival women's dormitory and a 1929-1930 Craftsman-style teachers' cottage, on the former campus of the State Teachers and Agricultural College for Negroes, southwest of Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia.","why_significant":"They are the last two publicly owned buildings from an important African-American educational institution that became one of three state-supported Black colleges in Georgia. They are significant for education, ethnic heritage (Black) and architecture, as representative campus residential buildings for students and teachers. The dormitory keeps its Colonial Revival character, and the cottage is a Craftsman bungalow applied to institutional housing.","narrative":"Two brick buildings on a rise along Georgia Highway 83 southwest of Forsyth are all that remain of a campus built from 1929 onward for a pioneering Black teacher-training school. A two-story Colonial Revival women's dormitory, completed in 1936, has full-height brick pilasters, entry porticos and a simple cornice. Nearby stands a one-story Craftsman-style teachers' cottage built in 1929-1930, with a hip roof, wide eaves and a brick fireplace. The school began in 1900 under William Merida Hubbard and grew into the State Teachers and Agricultural College for Negroes, one of only three state-supported Black colleges in Georgia. Its Exchange Teachers Plan trained rural teachers. After college functions moved in 1938, the campus reopened as the Hubbard Training School, and the dormitory later housed teachers and classrooms until 1970. The buildings were listed for their roles in education, Black heritage and architecture. The dormitory is being restored as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1929-1953","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The dormitory has stood largely vacant since the 1970s and is being restored by the Hubbard Alumni Association as a museum and cultural center; the cottage is used for health care.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.876778-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/03000475.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000475/63201e02a5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000475/63201e02a5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_Teachers_and_Agricultural_College_for_Negroes_Women%27s_Dormitory.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:State_Teachers_and_Agricultural_College_for_Negroes_Women%27s_Dormitory.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209019","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Teachers_and_Agricultural_College_for_Negroes_Women%27s_Dormitory_and_Teachers%27_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136378219"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/monroe-county/state-teachers-and-agricultural-college-for-negroes-womens-dormitory-and-teacher-03000475/"}