{"nrhp_refnum":"09000729","name":"Hopewell High School Complex","other_names":["James E. Mallonee Middle School"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1201 City Point Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hopewell (Independent City)","county":"Hopewell","state":"VA","lat":37.301015965500056,"lon":-77.29756069003054,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A school complex at 1201 City Point Road in Hopewell, Virginia, built between 1925 and 1959. It includes the main high school building, a football field with outbuildings, a home economics cottage, a gymnasium and a science and library building.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be a representative and intact example of an early 20th-century urban school complex under Criterion C for Architecture. It shows Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and International style influences. The buildings were added over about 30 years as the school grew and the curriculum expanded.","narrative":"Hopewell High School Complex occupies a city block on City Point Road in Hopewell, Virginia. Its centerpiece is a two-story brick high school opened in 1925, designed by Richmond architect Fred A. Bishop, with Tudor Revival details such as decorative brick panels and an arched stone entry. Over the next three decades the campus grew to include a 1930s shop addition, a Works Progress Administration football field with a concrete perimeter wall and club house, a late-1930s Colonial Revival home economics cottage, a 1949 gymnasium and a 1959 International style science and library building. Several of the later buildings were designed by the Richmond firm Carneal & Johnston. The school served as the high school for much of Hopewell's white population until 1967, when students moved to a new building, and later became a middle school until 1988. It is recognized for architecture as a largely intact example of an early 20th-century urban school complex that expanded with the community's needs.","period_of_significance":"1925-1959","architect_builder":"Fred A. Bishop, architect; Cameal & Johnston, architects & engineers.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movement: International Style; Tudor Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Main school building was vacated in 1988 and has boarded windows; the school board occupies the science and library building and the Boys and Girls Club uses the gymnasium.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.190875-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6813/41681306/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000729.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000729/37e5532386-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000729/37e5532386-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"AgnosticPreachersKid","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopewell_Lofts.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AgnosticPreachersKid</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:Hopewell_Lofts.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681306","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell_High_School_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15225075"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/hopewell/hopewell-high-school-complex-09000729/"}