{"nrhp_refnum":"77001089","name":"Harvey, Elizabeth, Free Negro School","other_names":["Nash,Daisy,House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"North St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harveysburg","county":"Warren County","state":"OH","lat":39.503451082000026,"lon":-84.00683814899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story painted brick former school building on North Street in Harveysburg, Warren County, Ohio, built about 1831 and opened by Elizabeth Harvey as a school for Black children. It is now a private residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the earliest documented schools for Black children in Ohio. An 1829 Ohio law excluded Black children from public schools, and Elizabeth Harvey opened this separate school around 1831. Some sources call it the first free Negro school in Ohio, but the nomination notes that other histories dispute this.","narrative":"This one-story painted brick building on North Street in Harveysburg, Ohio, was built about 1831 and housed a school for Black children. It has a six-bay south facade, 6/6 light windows, a stone foundation, a gable roof with asbestos shingles and an end chimney. A shed-roofed addition sits at the rear. Elizabeth Harvey, a sister of the town's founder William Harvey, opened the school after Ohio's 1829 school law excluded Black children from public education. Between 1829 and 1840 several organizations and individuals opened private schools for Black students, mostly in southern Ohio. Some older histories call this the first free Negro school in the state, though the nomination says that claim is doubted. It is described as one of the earliest documented schools of its kind in Ohio. The school served as a district school for Warren County and employed two teachers. It is now a private residence, and a local bicentennial committee once hoped to turn it into a museum.","period_of_significance":"1831","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the paint on the brick is peeling and the building has a rear shed-roofed addition. A local bicentennial commission hoped to buy it for use as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.950068-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001089.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001089/cffd645989-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001089/cffd645989-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Harvey_Free_Negro_School,_front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Harvey_Free_Negro_School,_front.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991873","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138754336"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/warren-county/harvey-elizabeth-free-negro-school-77001089/"}