Harrison School - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Harrison School - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Harrison School is a historic public school building for African-American students located in Roanoke, Virginia. It is a rectangular, 13-bay brick building done in modified Georgian Revival architecture. The school was built in 1916 with two-story wings added in 1922. It was the first school in the city to educate black students beyond the seventh grade level, and its first principal was the noted educator Lucy Addison. After closing as a school in the 1960s, the building served as a child care center and later low-income housing as well as the home of the Harrison Museum of African American Culture. Read more on Wikipedia
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