{"nrhp_refnum":"95000533","name":"Rucker, Beulah, House-School","other_names":["Gainesville High and Industrial School for Colored","Beulah R"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2110 Athens Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gainesville","county":"Hall County","state":"GA","lat":34.28194805500004,"lon":-83.78762117799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-05-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Georgian cottage of about 1915 on the Athens Highway (US 129) in Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, built by Beulah Rucker and her husband Byrd Oliver as a family home and daytime schoolhouse.","why_significant":"It is the only surviving historic building of the Gainesville High and Industrial School for Colored, founded about 1914 by educator Beulah Rucker Oliver. The school was the only black high school in Hall County and the only local school teaching industrial skills to Black students. The property is significant under Criteria A and B for education, ethnic heritage (African American), and its association with Oliver.","narrative":"This small one-story cottage on the Athens Highway in Gainesville, Georgia, was built between 1914 and 1916 by Beulah Rucker and her husband Byrd Oliver. It served as the family home and, during the day, as a schoolhouse. Rucker, a Black educator born in Banks County, founded the Gainesville High and Industrial School for Colored and taught and served as principal for over forty years. The school served children of limited means, taught industrial trades such as brickmaking, hatmaking and rug weaving, and grew crops on site. After Rosenwald Foundation matching funds built new facilities around 1920, it added high school grades and enrolled up to 200 students. It was the only Black high school in Hall County. The other school buildings have burned or been demolished, leaving this house as the sole surviving historic resource of the complex. It has wood siding, a metal hipped roof, a stone pier foundation, and a chimney Rucker built from stones found on the property.","period_of_significance":"c.1915-1945","architect_builder":"Beulah Rucker and Byrd Oliver - builders","architectural_style":"No style (Georgian cottage, central-passage plan)","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant; a museum and educational foundation was rehabilitating the building for use as a community center.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.510428-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95000533.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000533/a225443cf5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000533/a225443cf5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BEULAH_RUCKER_HOUSE-SCHOOL,_HALL_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:BEULAH_RUCKER_HOUSE-SCHOOL,_HALL_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Rucker_House-School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65060354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/hall-county/rucker-beulah-house-school-95000533/"}