{"nrhp_refnum":"04000042","name":"Woodville School","other_names":["036-5045"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4310 George Washington Mermorial Highway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ordinary","county":"Gloucester County","state":"VA","lat":37.32499547900005,"lon":-76.51502735299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story, wood-frame Rosenwald school building on a one-acre lot beside U.S. Route 17 in Gloucester County, Virginia, built in 1923, with two contributing outbuildings. The builder is not identified.","why_significant":"The school represents the effort of a rural African American community and the Rosenwald Fund to provide quality education for Black children in the early 20th century. It is described as Gloucester County's only well-preserved early 20th-century African American school building. It is nominated under Criterion A.","narrative":"Woodville School is a one-story, wood-frame schoolhouse on a one-acre lot beside U.S. Route 17 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Built in 1923 to a Rosenwald Fund community school plan, it measures about 63.5 by 28.5 feet, with white clapboard siding, tall windows facing east and west for classroom light, and an enclosed front porch. Of the $3,500 construction cost, the local African American community provided $2,500, the Rosenwald Fund $700 and the county $300. The school board sold the building in 1942, and it was converted to a house, with interior rooms subdivided and a kitchen added. Original floors, doors and vertical wainscoting survive. Two outbuildings, a small building that may have been a teacher's house or guesthouse and a shed, also contribute. The property was listed for its link to rural Black education and the Rosenwald program, and as the county's best-preserved early 20th-century African American school. The form lists its current use as vacant.","period_of_significance":"1923 - 1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th century Revivals","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use; the building was converted to a residence after 1942.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.70905-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/6809/41680951/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000042.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000042/90dece4b34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000042/90dece4b34-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodville_School,_Ordinary,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodville_School,_Ordinary,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680951","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodville_School_(Ordinary,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713567"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/gloucester-county/woodville-school-04000042/"}