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Second Ward Negro Elementary School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Jct. of White and Posten Aves., Morgantown, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°37′17″N 79°56′57″W / 39.62139°N 79.94917°W / 39.62139; -79.94917
Area	1.9 acres (0.77 ha)
Built	1939
Architect	Tucker & Silling; Russell, John W.
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	92000896
Added to NRHP	July 28, 1992

Second Ward Negro Elementary School, also known as the Second Ward Annex, is a historic school building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a one-story, plus basement, T-shaped brick building in the Art Deco style. It sits on a sandstone foundation. Funds for the building's construction were provided by the Works Progress Administration. It functioned as a school for African American students and a community center until the end of segregation in 1954. The building reopened as a school annex and Instructional Materials Center in the 1960s, but ceased being used as a school in 1993.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Teresa Statler and Barbara J. Howe (April 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Second Ward Negro Elementary School" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-18.

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