Johnson School (Millsboro, Delaware)
Appearance
Johnson School | |
Location | South of junction of Delaware Route 24 and Road 297, near Millsboro, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 38°36′13″N 75°13′50″W / 38.60361°N 75.23056°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | Nanticoke Indian Community TR |
NRHP reference No. | 79003313[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 26, 1979 |
Johnson School, also known as Warwick No. 203, is a historic rural school building located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in the early 1920s, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame structure with wood shingles in the Colonial Revival style. It has a gable roof and features a pedimented entrance portico supported by Doric order columns and plain pilasters. The Johnson School was a separate educational facility for African Americans, and was attended by some children whose families claimed Indian descent.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
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Front entrance
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Categories:
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Colonial Revival architecture in Delaware
- Schools in Sussex County, Delaware
- Nanticoke
- National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States school stubs
- Delaware building and structure stubs