{"nrhp_refnum":"06001139","name":"Barber, J.T., School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1700 Cobb St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Bern","county":"Craven County","state":"NC","lat":35.117317105500064,"lon":-77.0645309914667,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A flat-roofed, one-story concrete block school with brick veneer on an approximately eleven-acre tract in a residential neighborhood about two miles northwest of New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. Built in stages between 1951 and 1955, it was designed by Raymond Fuson.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant under Criterion A for its association with African American education in New Bern and Craven County during the segregated period. It was an outgrowth of the West Street Graded School, and its graduates, athletes and teams are cited as major achievements. Its modernist design is also described as an early example of mid-twentieth-century school architecture.","narrative":"Built in stages between 1951 and 1955 on a wooded eleven-acre tract northwest of New Bern, the flat-roofed concrete block school with brick veneer was designed by Raymond Fuson in a modernist idiom. Its long east-west corridor, clerestory windows and flush windows separate classrooms, a gymnasium, an auditorium, a cafeteria and a library into distinct spaces. The school opened in 1951 as a middle school for African American students and became a high school in 1955, when it housed about twenty-five classrooms with science laboratories and a band room. The school is regarded as an important center of Black education in the segregated period, with its first graduating class in 1956 and graduates who went on to careers in law, medicine, education and professional sports. Its football team won the 1956 state championship. The school later became an integrated middle school in 1970.","period_of_significance":"1951-1956","architect_builder":"Fuson, Raymond, architect","architectural_style":"Modern Movement","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Several later alterations are described, including window replacement in 2003 and roof replacement in 2004; the school continued as a school after 1956.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.980022-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7197/47719774/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06001139.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001139/9969f93d2d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001139/9969f93d2d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JTBarberSchool_5469.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</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:JTBarberSchool_5469.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719774","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.T._Barber_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18148352"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/craven-county/barber-j-t-school-06001139/"}