{"nrhp_refnum":"98001417","name":"Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"10 mi. S of Seguin on Sweet Home Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seguin","county":"Guadalupe County","state":"TX","lat":29.461150367000073,"lon":-98.03873939799996,"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 four-teacher type Rosenwald school building constructed in 1924 about 10 miles south of Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas, in a rural farm setting. It is a wood-frame building with a hipped roof, built by master carpenter Henry Singletary.","why_significant":"The school is nominated under Criterion A in the areas of Education and Ethnic Heritage-African American at a local level. It was one of 464 Rosenwald-aided schools in Texas and one of two Rosenwald buildings remaining in Guadalupe County. It served a tri-county area as a County Training School with a vocational and agricultural curriculum for rural Black students.","narrative":"Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School is a wood-frame schoolhouse built in 1924 about ten miles south of Seguin, Texas. It follows the four-teacher type of the Rosenwald school program, apparently modified from Rural Negro School Plan No. 12, and contains four classrooms, a kitchen, restrooms and a library. Master carpenter Henry Singletary built it on land donated by businessman William M. Stein, with construction costs of $5,500 shared among Black residents, white donors, public funds and the Rosenwald Fund. The school grew from a community founded by former slaves and served a tri-county area as a County Training School emphasizing vocational and agricultural education for rural Black students. It is one of two Rosenwald buildings left in Guadalupe County. The exterior remains largely unaltered, though a porch was enclosed for restrooms. Closed as a school in 1963, it now serves as a nutrition center and gathering place for the Sweet Home Baptist Church.","period_of_significance":"1924-1948","architect_builder":"Singletary, Henry (builder)","architectural_style":"OTHER: four-teacher type","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Owned by the Sweet Home Baptist Church and used as a community nutrition center and a place for church homecomings; the school closed in 1963.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.075477-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/9692/40969213/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/98001417.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001417/39414fc701-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001417/39414fc701-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sweet_home_school_2013.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:Sweet_home_school_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969213","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_Vocational_and_Agricultural_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002093"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/guadalupe-county/sweet-home-vocational-and-agricultural-high-school-98001417/"}