{"nrhp_refnum":"10000981","name":"Lott-Canada School","other_names":["Lott--Canada High School","Beeville Rosenwald School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"900 W Corpus Christi St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Beeville","county":"Bee County","state":"TX","lat":28.398669190000078,"lon":-97.75780738699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame school with brick veneer at 900 W. Corpus Christi Street, Beeville, Bee County, Texas, built 1931-1932 with Rosenwald funds for African-American students. The nominated property also includes a homemaking cottage (contributing) and a relocated building (noncontributing).","why_significant":"It is the sole surviving property directly tied to African-American education in Beeville and a rare reminder of segregated schooling in Bee County. It is a good example of a four-teacher Rosenwald school built to Community School Plan #4-A. It is nominated under Criterion A in Education and Ethnic Heritage-African American at the local level.","narrative":"Built in 1931-1932 at 900 W. Corpus Christi Street in Beeville, Texas, this H-shaped, one-story school was funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald program for African-American education. It follows Community School Plan #4-A for a four-teacher school, with wood framing, red brick veneer, a recessed porch and front-facing gables. Inside were four classrooms, an auditorium with stage, and an office that doubled as a library. It was named for Mose Lott and Allen Canada, carpenters who built an earlier school for Black students in Beeville. Separate and unequal conditions were the norm: desks and books were hand-me-downs from white schools. The high school grades were integrated in 1955, and the remaining grades by 1964. Windows, porch columns and interior spaces have been altered, but the building keeps good integrity. A homemaking cottage on the block also contributes. Today it serves as a Coastal Bend College adult learning center, and it is the only surviving property tied to Black education in the community.","period_of_significance":"1931-1964","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still owned by Beeville Independent School District and leased to Coastal Bend College, which uses it as an adult learning center; brick veneer is in extremely poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.71163-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/9681/40968171/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/10000981.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000981/a8eff00b5b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000981/a8eff00b5b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"cdsanchez","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lott-Canada_School_2012-09-26_13-32-25.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">cdsanchez</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:Lott-Canada_School_2012-09-26_13-32-25.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968171","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000041"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bee-county/lott-canada-school-10000981/"}