{"nrhp_refnum":"98001316","name":"Bolling, Anna P., Junior High School","other_names":["123-117"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 W. Fillmore St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburg (Independent City)","county":"Petersburg","state":"VA","lat":37.22378065000004,"lon":-77.40153429399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick junior high school at 35 West Fillmore Street in Petersburg, Virginia, built in 1926 to designs by architect Charles M. Robinson and built by the City of Petersburg.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be significant locally as a well-preserved example of Second Renaissance Revival design and as the work of Charles M. Robinson, a noted Virginia designer of schools. It also reflects the growth of public school construction in Petersburg and the rising importance of public education, and it was built partly to relieve overcrowding at Petersburg High School.","narrative":"Anna P. Bolling Junior High School, at 35 West Fillmore Street in Petersburg, is a three-story school finished in 1926 and dedicated the following year to Anna Peyton Bolling, a former principal of Petersburg High School. Architect Charles M. Robinson, known for school designs across Virginia, gave it an orange pressed-brick and cast-stone exterior dominated by a semi-circular, two-level portico with Doric columns. Inside, the corridors have terrazzo floors and glazed brick wainscot, and the classrooms keep original chalkboards and built-in closets. The building was constructed in part to ease crowding at Petersburg High School, which had opened nine years earlier. It stands on ground long tied to education, where Peabody High School, the city's first high school for African Americans, was built in 1874. The school keeps a high degree of integrity, with few exterior changes beyond enclosed side doorways, and is regarded as an example of the progress in school design in Petersburg and across Virginia in the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"1926","architect_builder":"Charles M. Robinson","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Renaissance/Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as vacant, not in use; after the school closed it housed city health and social services offices.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.729053-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/6824/41682494/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/98001316.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001316/4ed40af468-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001316/4ed40af468-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Sarah Stierch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_P._Bolling_Junior_High_School_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Stierch</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_P._Bolling_Junior_High_School_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80004315","name":"Poplar Lawn Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/poplar-lawn-historic-district-80004315/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682494","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_P._Bolling_Junior_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4767392"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/petersburg/bolling-anna-p-junior-high-school-98001316/"}