{"nrhp_refnum":"07001011","name":"Siloam School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side of Mallard Highlands Dr, Approx. 0.25 mi. S from jct. of John Adams Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.336160138000025,"lon":-80.73878657499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, single-classroom frame school building in northeast Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, built about 1920 on a Julius Rosenwald Fund plan. It sits on a 1.12-acre lot off John Adams Road.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant for its association with African American education in Mecklenburg County from about 1920 to about 1947, when it was built with Rosenwald Fund help rather than public funding. It is also presented as an example of standardized Rosenwald school architecture, with its original interior largely intact and as the county's sole surviving one-teacher Rosenwald school.","narrative":"Built about 1920 in northeast Charlotte on a Julius Rosenwald Fund plan, the one-story frame Siloam School is a single-classroom, gable-front building on brick piers, measuring about twenty-two by forty-three feet. It was constructed for African American children in the Mallard Creek district on a one-acre lot bought from F.E. Query in 1903. Its interior retains original pine tongue-and-groove floors and walls, and the original floor plan with a central vestibule, two cloak rooms, a large classroom and a rear industrial room remains largely intact. The building is regarded as an important local example of the standardized Rosenwald one-teacher school, which was funded by philanthropy rather than public money. It is also significant for its role in rural black education in the county before consolidation in the 1930s and 1940s. After the school closed, the Young family, who had attended and worked there, bought the property in 1951 and lived in it, and later it was converted to an auto repair shop.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1920-ca. 1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Rosenwald Fund School","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Building is secured with boards over openings; the east garage door is missing and the opening is boarded; the entrance stairs are in very poor condition; the property was used as a residence and later an automotive shop, and is being developed around with apartments.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.337126-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7213/47721312/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07001011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001011/4ea591b20b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001011/4ea591b20b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siloam_School_with_context.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siloam_School_with_context.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721312","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloam_School_(Charlotte,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016184"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/siloam-school-07001011/"}