Harrison School (Roanoke, Virginia)
Harrison School | |
Harrison School, June 2010 | |
| Location | 523 Harrison Ave., NW, Roanoke, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°16′46″N 79°56′53″W / 37.27944°N 79.94806°W |
| Area | 0.8 acres (0.32 ha) |
| Built | 1916 |
| Architect | Page, J.H. |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004592 |
| VLR No. | 128-0043 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | September 9, 1982 |
| Designated VLR | May 18, 1982 |
Harrison School is a historic public school building for African-American students in Roanoke, Virginia. It is a rectangular, 13-bay brick building done in modified Georgian Revival architecture. The school was built in 1916, and two-story wings were 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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.