{"nrhp_refnum":"90000355","name":"Church Street School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jasper St., W of Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Thomasville","county":"Davidson County","state":"NC","lat":35.889408477000075,"lon":-80.08903108999993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Neo-Colonial Georgian school building on Jasper Street in Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina, built 1935-1937 with WPA/PWA grant and county bond funds. It was the first brick school facility in Thomasville for Afro-American students.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant under Criterion A for its role in the 1920s-1930s school-building program in Thomasville and in the education of Afro-American students there, where it served as a consolidated school for all grades until 1968. It is also significant under Criterion C as an up-to-date school design by William Roy Wallace, and it and the Kern Street School are described as the only known surviving Wallace buildings in Thomasville.","narrative":"Built in 1935-1937 on Jasper Street in Thomasville, this two-story brick school of Neo-Colonial Georgian design was designed by Winston-Salem architect William Roy Wallace and erected by contractor R. K. Stewart. Funding came from a Public Works Administration grant combined with a county bond issue. It was the first brick school in Thomasville built for Afro-American students and opened in 1937 with 515 students under principal E. L. Peterson. Its T-shaped plan placed large classrooms along windowed walls, and it was designed so that wings could be added later, which occurred in 1951 with the addition of two wings and a gymnasium. The school served as the community's secondary school for Afro-American students until integration in 1968. Its importance lies in its role in local education for Black students during the period of statewide school expansion, and in its architecture, which reflects the modern school planning of the period. The nearby Kern Street School is a companion building by the same architect.","period_of_significance":"1935-1939","architect_builder":"Wallace, William Roy, architect; Stewart, R. K., contractor","architectural_style":"Neo-Colonial Georgian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Sold in 1987; present plans call for the original building and primary school to be developed into housing for the elderly.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.453403-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7199/47719959/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000355/1b3850ea03-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000355/1b3850ea03-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tanya Peterson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_Street_School_Thomasville,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tanya Peterson</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:Church_Street_School_Thomasville,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719959","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_School_(Thomasville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18330909"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davidson-county/church-street-school-90000355/"}