{"nrhp_refnum":"11000184","name":"Cusseta Industrial High School","other_names":["Cusseta Rosenwald School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"113 Sandy Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cusseta","county":"Chattahoochee County","state":"GA","lat":32.301593499000035,"lon":-84.77237542699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, T-shaped wood-frame Rosenwald two-teacher community school in Cusseta, the seat of Chattahoochee County in rural west Georgia, completed in 1930 on a small ridge southeast of downtown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent surviving example of an early 20th-century African-American school built with Rosenwald Fund support, following the fund's Community School Plans. It is significant under Criterion A for education, ethnic heritage (Black) and social history, and under Criterion C for architecture. It was the only high school available to African Americans in the county from 1930 to 1958, and it is among roughly 50 identified surviving Rosenwald schools in Georgia.","narrative":"Cusseta Industrial High School is a one-story, T-shaped frame school building on a ridge southeast of downtown Cusseta, Georgia. Completed in 1930, it follows the Rosenwald Fund's published Two-Teacher Community School plan, with two classrooms in the main block and an industrial room in the front cross-gable. It rests on brick piers, is clad in weatherboard, and has banks of windows to bring daylight into the classrooms. Construction cost $2,973, paid by the county, the Black community and the Rosenwald Fund. The school was the only high school open to African Americans in Chattahoochee County from 1930 until 1958, when a new, larger school replaced it. It was listed for its role in education, Black ethnic heritage and social history, and as a well-preserved example of Rosenwald school architecture. Its interior survives largely intact, with later changes including a small cloakroom and a kitchen in the former industrial room. It is among about 50 identified surviving Rosenwald schools in Georgia.","period_of_significance":"1930-1958","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Rosenwald two-teacher community school","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by a local historic preservation society since 2008 and used as a dance studio from 1995 to the present; the interior is largely intact with minor alterations, and the privies no longer exist.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.262592-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/11000184.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000184/22bf8fac2d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000184/22bf8fac2d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cusseta_Industrial_High_School_(Cusseta,_GA;_NRHP).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; 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:Cusseta_Industrial_High_School_(Cusseta,_GA;_NRHP).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205922","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusseta_Industrial_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16988937"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chattahoochee-county/cusseta-industrial-high-school-11000184/"}