Claymont Stone School
Naaman's Creek School | |
Location | 3611 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 39°48′17″N 75°27′17″W / 39.804772°N 75.454689°W |
Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
Built | 1805 |
Architect | William S. Bird |
Architectural style | Early Republic, One-room school |
NRHP reference No. | 90001715[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 15, 1990 |
The Claymont Stone School, also known as Naaman's Creek School #1, is a historic
John Dickinson, in Claymont, Delaware, on the Philadelphia Pike just south of the Darley House. The school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1] Its official Delaware State Historic Marker indicates that the school "may have been the first racially integrated public school in the State."[2]
The original building was renovated in 1905 and expanded to become a two-room schoolhouse, serving the neighborhood of Claymont and the rural
Naaman's Creek area as a school until the 1924–25 school year, when the Green Street School was built.[3]
In 1928 the Stone School was converted to serve as a community center and public library, but in 1988 it was deemed structurally unsound. Thereafter, it stood empty, and the school district considered tearing it down until a group called Friends of the Claymont Stone School intervened to save the building, raising funds for its renovation and conversion into a museum and heritage center, which was completed in 2002.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Delaware Public Archives Archived 2007-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Valerie Cesna and Anne C. Wilson (September 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Naaman's Creek School". National Park Service. and accompanying nine photos
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