{"nrhp_refnum":"10000208","name":"J.C. Price High School","other_names":["Joseph Charles Price High School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1300-1400 W. Bank St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.67712606600003,"lon":-80.49567289099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Colonial Revival brick school building with H-shaped plan at 1300-1400 West Bank Street in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, completed in December 1931 and used as the city's black high school from January 1932, with 1951 and 1956-1957 supplementary buildings on the campus.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is the first and only public school building in Salisbury erected exclusively as a high school for black students, and that it is closely tied to principal Louico Hamilton Hall, the Julius Rosenwald Fund's school-building support, and the Colonial Revival architectural design of its 1931 building. It is also presented as the focus of pride in the city's black community until integration in 1969.","narrative":"Built in 1931 on West Bank Street in west central Salisbury, the one-story brick school follows a symmetrical H-shaped Colonial Revival plan designed by Barbee and Yoe. Builder Jack William Long completed it that year, and it opened as the city's black high school in January 1932. Funding came partly from a Julius Rosenwald Fund grant of $5,300, which was the largest such grant in North Carolina that year. The school is regarded as the first public school in Salisbury erected exclusively for black high school students. Principal Louico Hamilton Hall, who led black public education in the city from 1911, oversaw the school from 1932 to 1947. Its 1951 gymnasium and 1956-1957 classroom and cafeteria buildings were positioned to complement the original block. The school served Salisbury's black students until integration at the start of the 1969-1970 school year, and its architecture retains much of its original character.","period_of_significance":"1931-1969","architect_builder":"Barbee and Yoe (architects); Jack William Long (builder); John Richard Hartlege Jr. (architect, 1951 gymnasium); John Erwin Ramsay (architect, 1956-1957 buildings)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"All four buildings are in use for educational, social, or recreational uses and in fair to good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.824183-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7221/47722100/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10000208.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000208/52cd558024-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000208/52cd558024-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ncpappy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JC_Price_High_School_Salisbury_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ncpappy</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:JC_Price_High_School_Salisbury_NC.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722100","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Price_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987675"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/j-c-price-high-school-10000208/"}