{"nrhp_refnum":"10000019","name":"Eleanor Roosevelt School","other_names":["The Eleanor Roosevelt Vocational School for Colored Youth","Eleanor Roosevelt Rosenwald School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Parham St. at Leverette Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warm Springs","county":"Meriwether County","state":"GA","lat":32.89908097500006,"lon":-84.68479797699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-05-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, seven-room red brick schoolhouse built in 1936 at Parham Street and Leverette Hill Road in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia, with an early 1950s lunchroom addition. It was built with partial support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund.","why_significant":"It was the 5,358th and final school built with Rosenwald Fund support, completed in 1936 years after the fund ceased operations. It was built at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who helped secure its funding and dedicated it in 1937. It is also a good example of the fund's Five Teacher Community School Plan.","narrative":"Eleanor Roosevelt School is a one-story, T-shaped red brick schoolhouse on about six acres on the outskirts of Warm Springs, Georgia, in the African-American community of Leverette Hill. Built in 1936, it follows the Rosenwald Fund's Five Teacher Community School Plan, with four classrooms, an industrial room, a library or office, and a rear auditorium. A flat-roofed lunchroom building was added in the early 1950s. The school was the 5,358th and last built with Rosenwald support, finished four years after the fund stopped building schools. A Works Progress Administration grant revived the long-delayed project, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally covered a funding shortfall and gave the keynote address at the March 1937 dedication. It served the community until 1972. The interior retains wood floors and beadboard walls, though the original windows were later filled with brick. It is recognized for its education, ethnic heritage, social history and architectural importance.","period_of_significance":"1936-1960","architect_builder":"Fletcher B. Dressler, architect; Samuel L. Smith, architect (both prepared designs for the Julius Rosenwald Fund's Community School Plans)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as work in progress; the school operated from 1937 until 1972, the original windows were bricked in during the 1970s, and the lunchroom addition has deteriorated from exposure.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.038715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/10000019.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000019/33862f6947-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000019/33862f6947-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Saverivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eleanor_Roosevelt_School;_Warm_Springs,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Saverivers</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:Eleanor_Roosevelt_School;_Warm_Springs,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206370","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106216200"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/meriwether-county/eleanor-roosevelt-school-10000019/"}