{"nrhp_refnum":"04000463","name":"Monroe Street School","other_names":["J.C. Price High School","Livingstone College","S.E. Duncan Education Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1100 West Monroe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.67317605100004,"lon":-80.48487133699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story red brick former school building at the northwest corner of Monroe and Lloyd streets in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, across Monroe Street from the Livingstone College campus. It was constructed in 1923 and enlarged in 1941 and 1960.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under Criterion A for education and ethnic heritage. It was built as a public high school for African American students and became the city's central school for Black students, replacing a much smaller, overcrowded graded school. It reflects North Carolina's school consolidation-era building programs of the 1920s.","narrative":"Built in 1923 on Monroe Street in Salisbury, this three-story red brick school was designed as a public high school for African American students and stood across from the campus of Livingstone College. It was the city's first purpose-built public school for Black students of its size, replacing a crowded frame graded school in Dixonville. Originally named J. C. Price High School after Livingstone's first president, Joseph Charles Price, it was renamed Monroe Street School in 1931 when a larger high school opened. The building served the city's Black students until full integration in 1971. A fire in 1941 damaged the roof and exterior, and the building was repaired with fire-safety improvements, including stair towers and a new west wing. Livingstone College acquired it in 1985 and used it for teacher education until 2003. The building is now vacant and in the process of rehabilitation.","period_of_significance":"1923-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Vacant, undergoing rehabilitation for the Livingstone College teacher training program, now called the Samuel E. Duncan Education Center","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.429186-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7221/47722150/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04000463.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000463/b07e633c2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000463/b07e633c2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ncpappy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monroe_St_School.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ncpappy</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:Monroe_St_School.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722150","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Street_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/monroe-street-school-04000463/"}