Harrison School (Roanoke, Virginia)
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Harrison School (Roanoke, Virginia)
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Harrison School is a historic public school building for African-American students in Roanoke, Virginia. It is a rectangular, 13-bay brick building done in modified Georgian Revival architecture. The school was built in 1916, and two-story wings were added in 1922. It was the first school in the city to educate black students beyond the seventh-grade level, and its first principal was the noted educator Lucy Addison. After closing as a school in the 1960s, the building served as a child care cen
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United States historic place
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_School_(Roanoke,_Virginia)
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2024-02-05T21:14:26Z
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