{"nrhp_refnum":"97001405","name":"Number 18 School in Marshall","other_names":["DHR File No. 30-135"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 55 and VA 622","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marshall","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.86962789900008,"lon":-77.83119390599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room, late-19th-century wooden schoolhouse on a one-acre lot at the corner of John Marshall Highway (SR 55) and SR 622 near Marshall, Fauquier County, Virginia. It was built in 1887 and is owned by the county.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the only surviving unimpaired one-room schoolhouse in Fauquier County and an increasingly rare building in Virginia. It illustrates the early stages of public free education after 1871 and the history of Black education in rural Fauquier County. It also represents the typical simple rectangular, gable-roofed form of early free schools.","narrative":"Number 18 School is a one-room wooden schoolhouse near Marshall in Fauquier County, Virginia, built in 1887 on one acre deeded to the county. It has weatherboard walls, a stone foundation, a metal gable roof and a wood cupola. It was first used for white children until 1907, when a new school opened in Marshall. Later it served Black children, and by the 1930s it was one of 31 elementary schools for Black students in the county. It closed in January 1964 as the last of them, and the county kept it as a representative example. Other similar buildings were moved, altered or demolished. The nomination describes it as the only surviving unimpaired one-room schoolhouse in the county and a rare example in Virginia. Its plain interior, original scale and setting remain largely intact. Restoration begun in the 1980s has been carried out by community groups and former students, with the cupola and front steps reconstructed to match the originals.","period_of_significance":"1887-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th century","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Under restoration by community groups; current function listed as work in progress. The building has had no major alterations and its stone foundation, siding, windows and cupola have been repaired or rebuilt to match the original.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.842568-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/6806/41680641/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97001405.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001405/9534381658-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001405/9534381658-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PublicSchoolNo18_Marshall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</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:PublicSchoolNo18_Marshall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680641","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_18_School_in_Marshall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712983"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/number-18-school-in-marshall-97001405/"}