Last updated: October 21, 2022
Place
Carroll Rosenwald School
Dustin Wilson
Quick Facts
Location:
Rock Hill, South Carolina
Significance:
Architecture, Black History, Education
Designation:
Listed in the National Register – Reference number 100002600
OPEN TO PUBLIC:
No
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The Carroll Rosenwald School in Rock Hill, South Carolina has been deemed historically significant due to its connection with African American education in South Carolina.
The Carroll School is a three classroom frame school building located approximately seven miles southwest of Rock Hill in York County. It was built in 1929-30 as a Rosenwald School to Plan # 3 (Nashville Plan East or West facing) of the Rosenwald plan book as a three-teacher rural school. Most Rosenwald schools were designed to face east and west to take advantage of natural light. The Carroll School front façade faces slightly north-east, oriented to the existing road.
Locally, the Carroll School was sometimes called the New Zion School. The school served the African American community in the Ogden area of York County from its opening in 1929 until 1954, when it was closed. The building was vacant until the school district placed it in use in 2004 as a special resource site. The school is incorporated into the fifth grade curriculum, and each fifth grade class spends a day at the school as a resource center, providing education about the Rosenwald School program, the Great Depression from an African American perspective, and rural life.
Several changes have been made over the years. In the 2004 renovation, the roof was replaced with a standing-seam metal roof. Prior to this renovation, the windows had been removed and replaced with smaller windows of an inappropriate design. New wood windows were installed in 2004, replicating the original fenestration and nine-over-nine lights. The interior retains its original layout, with the original floors being refinished and furnishings replicated.
The Carroll School is a three classroom frame school building located approximately seven miles southwest of Rock Hill in York County. It was built in 1929-30 as a Rosenwald School to Plan # 3 (Nashville Plan East or West facing) of the Rosenwald plan book as a three-teacher rural school. Most Rosenwald schools were designed to face east and west to take advantage of natural light. The Carroll School front façade faces slightly north-east, oriented to the existing road.
Locally, the Carroll School was sometimes called the New Zion School. The school served the African American community in the Ogden area of York County from its opening in 1929 until 1954, when it was closed. The building was vacant until the school district placed it in use in 2004 as a special resource site. The school is incorporated into the fifth grade curriculum, and each fifth grade class spends a day at the school as a resource center, providing education about the Rosenwald School program, the Great Depression from an African American perspective, and rural life.
Several changes have been made over the years. In the 2004 renovation, the roof was replaced with a standing-seam metal roof. Prior to this renovation, the windows had been removed and replaced with smaller windows of an inappropriate design. New wood windows were installed in 2004, replicating the original fenestration and nine-over-nine lights. The interior retains its original layout, with the original floors being refinished and furnishings replicated.