{"nrhp_refnum":"07000052","name":"Marriott School","other_names":["DHR File No. 049-5010"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"450 Newtown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Stevens Church","county":"King and Queen County","state":"VA","lat":37.80969501250004,"lon":-77.05357496886197,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-02-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story brick Colonial Revival public school building at 450 Newtown Road near St. Stevens Church in rural King and Queen County, Virginia, built in 1938 to plans by the State Department of Education's Division of School Buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for its role in the history of rural public education in King and Queen County, including segregated schooling, responses to segregation, and later integration. Under Criterion C, it is presented as a classic example of early-twentieth-century public school architecture by a significant public architecture office, with high integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1938 on Newtown Road in rural King and Queen County, Marriott School is a single-story brick schoolhouse with a partial basement. Its plan forms an extended U around a large auditorium with a stage, with eight classrooms, a library and offices, and a west entrance with Doric pilasters, a fanlight and wood doors. The State Department of Education's Division of School Buildings produced the plans in 1937. It replaced an earlier school destroyed by fire in 1937, which traced its roots to a high school opened in 1909. The school served western King and Queen County from elementary through high school and was a white high school during segregation. It was desegregated and became an elementary school after closing as a high school in 1969, and ceased school use in 1992. A branch library occupied part of it from 1994 to 2001. The building has been vacant since 2002. Its exterior and interior retain a high degree of integrity, and the 1959 rear addition was removed.","period_of_significance":"1938-1956","architect_builder":"Division of School Buildings, State Department of Education, Richmond","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revival: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant since 2002, used only for storage of school equipment; a 2003 rehabilitation effort by a community development corporation is described.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.045619-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/6813/41681393/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07000052.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000052/776f3f2abb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000052/776f3f2abb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marriott_School_complete_and_stitched,_King_and_Queen_County.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marriott_School_complete_and_stitched,_King_and_Queen_County.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681393","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriott_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712789"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-and-queen-county/marriott-school-07000052/"}