Pine Grove Rosenwald School

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The Pine Grove School is significant as a representation of the modernization of African American education in a period marked by massive discriminatory school funding. The school is also an important reminder of the educational improvements brought about by the philanthropic efforts of the Julius Rosenwald Fund which constructed over 5000 schools in fifteen Southern states from 1917 to 1932. Built in 1923, the Pine Grove School is a wood-frame, one-story rectangular gable-front building with a V-crimp tin metal roof. The layout of the Pine Grove Rosenwald School is a variant of the two-room schoolhouse published as Rosenwald Community School Plan No. 2-C. The Community School Plans were utilized by the Rosenwald Fund between 1920 and 1928 and offered state of the art schoolhouse designs. The common characteristics of these designs included the orientation of the building, light colored paint schemes, and large banks of tall narrow windows. These particular elements were aimed at providing proper ventilation and optimal natural lighting inside the school, features that many early-twentieth century African American schoolhouses lacked. An initiative for the construction of the Pine Grove Rosenwald School raised $2,500 for the schools construction. The local African American community donated $265, the white community raised $315, and public funds totaling $1,200 were gained for the construction and operation of the new school. In return the Rosenwald Fund provided a $700 grant and architectural assistance towards the construction of the school. Listed in the National Register January 29, 2009. - SCDAH

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20th Century (29,076) African-American heritage (1,531) American Movement (6,254) Brick (42,462) Built 1923 (688) Built during 1920s (8,269) Bungalow/Craftsman (3,361)

Columbia, South Carolina (110) Have Street View (46,069) Owned by local government (11,500) Richland County, South Carolina (175) Rosenwald School Building Program in South Carolina, 1917-1932 (2) School (5,083) South Carolina (2,152)

Update Log 

• December 18, 2015: New Street View added by Michael Miller
• December 17, 2015: Photo imported by Michael Miller
• October 17, 2014: Updated by Michael Miller: Added "GPS Coordinates" & "Description" and Imported Photo
• October 17, 2014: Photo imported by Michael Miller

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• Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
• South Carolina Department of Archives and History
• National Register database - Reference number 08001397

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