Chicot County Training School

Chicot County Training School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Jct. of Hazel and N. School St., Dermott, Arkansas
Coordinates	33°32′8″N 91°26′19″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1929 (1929)
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.	04000490
Added to NRHP	May 26, 2004

The Chicot County Training School is a historic school building at the corner of Hazel and North School Streets in Dermott, Arkansas. The single story H-shaped building was built in 1929 with funding support from the Rosenwald Fund, a major philanthropic effort to improve educational opportunities for African-Americans. It is similar to other schools of the period, with banks of windows providing plentiful light to its seven classrooms. Sometime in the 1940s an auditorium was added to the west side. The building was the second built for the training school with Rosenwald support; the first, a four-room building, was built in 1924 but has not survived.

The school building is significant as the only surviving Rosenwald-funded school in Chicot County. Its design was based on standard plans developed by Samuel Smith, an agent for the Rosenwald Fund who developed a plan book for various configurations of school buildings, to be used in the fund's work without necessating the need for an architect for each facility built. The design incorporated an "industrial" room, in which trades could be taught, and the building was sited according to Rosenwald recommendations for the best use of natural lighting. The building served as a public school facility until 1975, after which it was sold to Morris-Booker Memorial College, which was in 2004 using it as a Head Start facility.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicot County, Arkansas