{"nrhp_refnum":"98001416","name":"Lockhart Vocational High School","other_names":["Carver High School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1104 E. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lockhart","county":"Caldwell County","state":"TX","lat":29.886000014000047,"lon":-97.66313756399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stucco-covered brick school building at 1104 E. Market Street in Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas, built in 1923 as a six-teacher Rosenwald school for African American students.","why_significant":"It is the last remaining of two six-teacher Rosenwald schools built in Texas in 1923, and one of 32 documented masonry-type Rosenwald schools in the state. It is nominated under Criterion A for its role in education and African American ethnic heritage at the local level. It reflects the Rosenwald Fund's self-help approach and the unequal conditions faced by the town's Black schools.","narrative":"Built in 1923 on East Market Street in Lockhart, this two-story stucco-covered brick school served the town's African American community and is locally remembered as Carver High School. It follows the six-teacher plan promoted by the Rosenwald school building program and is the last of two such schools built in Texas that year. Construction cost $22,000, with most funds coming from the school district, $2,500 from the Black community and $1,500 from the Rosenwald Fund. Elementary grades met on the first floor and high school grades upstairs, and the school reached Third Class high school status in 1926. Its requests for a janitor, lights and a flagpole were often deferred or denied by the school board. Alterations include a removed pediment, boarded windows, a 1945 brick restroom addition and a walkway added when Head Start used the building. The school closed in 1964 and now stands vacant, with its original basketball poles and flagpole still on site.","period_of_significance":"1923-1948","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: six-teacher type","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed current function is vacant/not in use; the school closed in 1964 and many windows are covered with plywood.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.190671-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/9685/40968505/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/98001416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001416/886563fd34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001416/886563fd34-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lockhart_vocational_school_2011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</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:Lockhart_vocational_school_2011.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968505","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001741"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/caldwell-county/lockhart-vocational-high-school-98001416/"}