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Title
Wheatley Public School: National Register of Historic Places Application
Subject
Applicable Criteria: ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING
Architectural Styles: SHINGLE STYLE
Areas Of Significance: ARCHITECTURE
Periods Of Significance: 1875-1899
Significant Years: 1892
Architectural Styles: SHINGLE STYLE
Areas Of Significance: ARCHITECTURE
Periods Of Significance: 1875-1899
Significant Years: 1892
Description
Present Day: Wheatley School and Black History Museum
Address: 921 Garfield Street
Year listed: 1997
Description: To meet the educational needs of Poplar Bluff's African American residents, the city constructed a one-room schoolhouse in 1901 at the
present site of the Wheatley Public School. This school was renamed the "Wheatley School" in 1908, in honor of Phillis Wheatley (17537-1784), a well-known black poet who was born in Africa and brought to America as a slave. The school enrolled approximately two hundred black students by 1907, and continued to grow in the early twentieth century. In 1928, the need for a larger, replacement school was acknowledged and the present Wheatley Public School was constructed.
Address: 921 Garfield Street
Year listed: 1997
Description: To meet the educational needs of Poplar Bluff's African American residents, the city constructed a one-room schoolhouse in 1901 at the
present site of the Wheatley Public School. This school was renamed the "Wheatley School" in 1908, in honor of Phillis Wheatley (17537-1784), a well-known black poet who was born in Africa and brought to America as a slave. The school enrolled approximately two hundred black students by 1907, and continued to grow in the early twentieth century. In 1928, the need for a larger, replacement school was acknowledged and the present Wheatley Public School was constructed.
Creator
Philip Thomason
Thomason and Associates
PO Box 121225
Nashville TN 37212
Thomason and Associates
PO Box 121225
Nashville TN 37212
Publisher
National Park Service
Date
Published: 11/6/2012
Format
pdf
Language
English
Identifier
National Register Information System ID: 12000909