{"nrhp_refnum":"98000429","name":"Guinn, James E., School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1200 South Freeway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.731737144500045,"lon":-97.3212000206943,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-building public school campus at 1200 South Freeway in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, on a 4.5-acre site. The Elementary School Building dates from 1927, the Junior High Building from 1937 and the Gymnasium/Shop Building from 1953-54.","why_significant":"The school represents the African American community's long effort to obtain adequate education in Fort Worth, from the 1890s through the integration period of the 1950s and 1960s. It also represents school architecture and campus development by three Fort Worth firms headed by Wiley G. Clarkson, Elmer G. Withers and Wyatt C. Hedrick. The 1953-54 building is included under Criteria Consideration G.","narrative":"James E. Guinn School is a campus of three brick buildings beside the South Freeway in Fort Worth. The Elementary School Building (1927) was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson, the Junior High Building (1937) by the Elmer G. Withers Architectural Company, and the Gymnasium/Shop Building (1953-54) by Wyatt C. Hedrick. Covered sidewalks with steel columns link the buildings. The two older buildings emphasize balance and symmetry, and the junior high has classically detailed cast stone entrance pavilions. The school grew from the Southside Colored School, which began in the 1890s after Black residents petitioned the city for a teacher and relied on rented church space. It later became the largest Black school in the city. The campus was recognized for its role in educating African American children and as an example of school architecture by prominent local firms. The buildings are vacant and deteriorated, though they retain most of their original design.","period_of_significance":"1927-1954","architect_builder":"Clarkson, Wiley G.; The Elmer G. Withers Architectural Company; Hedrick, Wyatt C.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use; the buildings are in varying stages of neglect, with boarded windows and, in the elementary building, partial second-floor collapse from water infiltration.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.17586-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/9735/40973534/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/98000429.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000429/4bf13315c7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000429/4bf13315c7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesGuinnSchool_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesGuinnSchool_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973534","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999806"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/guinn-james-e-school-98000429/"}