{"nrhp_refnum":"09001104","name":"Jarvisburg Colored School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7301 NC 158","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jarvisburg","county":"Currituck County","state":"NC","lat":36.18648158700006,"lon":-75.86453256599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame former African American school at 7302 Caratoke Highway (US 158) in Jarvisburg, Currituck County, North Carolina, built circa 1911 to a Barrett and Thomson plan by builder James Brown Ferebee.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be significant under Criterion A for Education and Black Ethnic Heritage. It served the area's African American students from 1911 to 1950 and is an extremely rare surviving example of a pre-Rosenwald Fund plan Black school in North Carolina. It is also one of only three pre-consolidation era school buildings still standing in Currituck County.","narrative":"Built around 1911, this two-story frame schoolhouse on Caratoke Highway in Jarvisburg served the area's African American children until 1950. Its plain balloon-frame form carries some Queen Anne decoration, including a front shed cloakroom with two pedimented corner porches and a small bell tower with a pyramidal roof and original wooden spire. The upper floor was long rented to the Sandy Ridge Masonic Lodge and also held classrooms and a small library. Local families fought for better schooling from the 1860s onward, and this was the third school on its site. After closing, it became a Sunday school annex for neighboring Corinth Baptist Church, then fell into serious disrepair. A restoration from 2005 to 2008 retained much of the original cypress and juniper frame and interior beaded board. The school is considered an extremely rare pre-Rosenwald example in North Carolina and one of only three pre-consolidation school buildings left in Currituck County.","period_of_significance":"1911-1950","architect_builder":"Barrett and Thomson, Raleigh, NC (Architect); Ferebee, James Brown, Camden, NC (Builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use as a current function. It was restored in 2005-2008 after years of deterioration; it had served as a Sunday school annex for the neighboring church after the school closed.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.197857-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7198/47719874/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/09001104.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001104/ab415a96be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001104/ab415a96be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ. M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JARVISBURG_COLORED_SCHOOL,_CURRITUCK_COUNTY,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ. M.D.</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:JARVISBURG_COLORED_SCHOOL,_CURRITUCK_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719874","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvisburg_Colored_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18208272"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/currituck-county/jarvisburg-colored-school-09001104/"}