{"nrhp_refnum":"85001657","name":"Brown, C. S., School Auditorium","other_names":["Brown Hall"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Off NC 45","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winton","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.38528616600007,"lon":-76.93803590999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story stuccoed tile block Colonial Revival auditorium, known as Brown Hall, completed in 1926 at the C. S. Brown School in Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina. It also housed six classrooms and the principal's office.","why_significant":"It is the oldest intact and unaltered building tied to the school and to its founder, Calvin Scott Brown, a noted Black educator and religious leader. The form argues it reflects the development of Black graded schools after Reconstruction and is a good example of early twentieth-century educational buildings in North Carolina.","narrative":"Brown Hall, the 1926 auditorium at the C. S. Brown School in Winton, is a one-story Colonial Revival building of stuccoed tile block on a brick foundation. A pedimented portico fronts a five-bay central pavilion, flanked by wings holding six classrooms and the principal's office. The auditorium seated several hundred people. It is the oldest intact and unaltered building connected with the school and its founder, Calvin Scott Brown. Born in 1859, Brown founded Chowan Academy in 1886 to meet the need for a school for Black students in Hertford County. The school later became Waters Normal Institute and entered the county system in 1923, with Brown as principal until his death in 1936. The building was partly funded by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. It was nominated for its link to Black education after Reconstruction, to Brown's life, and as an example of early twentieth-century school architecture. At the time of nomination it stood vacant, undergoing rehabilitation.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1926)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and unoccupied, with a sensitive rehabilitation under way for school and community center use under a lease to a restoration association.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.970994-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7208/47720869/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001657.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005976","name":"Winton Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/winton-historic-district-100005976/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720869","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Brown_School_Auditorium","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460693"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/brown-c-s-school-auditorium-85001657/"}